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Visitors have been petitioning for the music icon to get her effigy debut at Paris’ famous wax museum for quite some time. Makes sense: she’s one of the most celebrated female artist in history with 28 Grammy Awards, and she released her acclaimed eighth studio album, ‘Cowboy Carter’, earlier this year. We were a bit mixed on it, but the consensus is strongly in Bey’s favour. And the museum went all in. Decked out in a gold bodysuit and sitting cross-legged on a hoop, the lifelike sculpture of Queen B took the Musée Grévin's creative workshop team and veteran sculptor Claus Velte six months to...
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French river police trained on the Parisian river on Tuesday in preparation for the Olympics opening ceremony later in the month. About 10,000 athletes will be parading on more than 90 boats on the Seine for 6 kilometres. The open-air ceremony will be held during sunset and is expected to last nearly four hours, transforming Paris and its iconic landmarks into a giant stage. A large police operation is planned for the event. "We will have several boats involved with other police units from outside the Prefecture of Police," said Sophie Malherbe, the Head of Department of the Paris River police...
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With the 2024 Olympics just weeks away, many of us are thinking a little more than usual about the host city, Paris. Ahead of the ever-popular sporting event though, there have been many criticisms of authorities and business owners putting prices up for the period, and of the French capital itself. Most first-timers in Paris arrive with an idealised view, expecting beauty at every turn, world class food and attractive people wearing perfect outfits. As a major city, this is not often the case and some tourists get a nasty shock when expectations don’t live up to the reality. There’s actually ...
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Paris 2024 is now only three weeks away - but some events and the Olympics opening ceremony remain in question thanks to ongoing sewage pollution in the River Seine. The river is due to host competitions including the 10km freestyle and the triathlon. Following the Games, there are plans to keep the Seine swimmable for the general public, overturning a 100-year ban. And the opening ceremony is due to feature international Olympic delegations cruising the river on boats - but yesterday’s rehearsal for the event was cancelled due to dangerous concentrations of faecal bacteria in the water. This ...
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Expecting a record-breaking summer, the hotel industry in Paris is becoming concerned as it experiences low occupancy rates ahead of the summer Olympic Games. With barely four weeks to go until the Olympic Games, observers say tourists seem to be turning their backs on the capital. Occupancy rates are down by almost 25% compared to previous years, according to some polls. For the Ze Hotel at the foot of Montmartre, June has been nothing like the previous months. The hotel is only half-full, compared with at least 80% in recent years. "I think the Olympic Games effect is counter-productive sinc...
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French studio Moreau Kusunoki have unveiled their plans for the prolonged renovation of Paris' iconic Pompidou Centre – a project that could take up to five years to complete, at an estimated cost of €262m. One of the largest modern and contemporary art museums in the world, the Pompidou Centre is known for its groundbreaking "inside out" structure, which displays pipework on the outside, but which has suffered serious wear and tear. Moreau Kusunoki will bring their plans to fruition with the help of Mexico City and New York-based studio Frida Escobedo. According to the studios, the overhaul s...
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As Europe swelters in an early heatwave, concerns are mounting about what Paris’s weather will be like during the upcoming Olympics. The event, kicking off on 24 July, could become the hottest Games on record, posing risks of serious illness and even death to athletes. A new report, Rings of Fire: Heat Risks at the 2024 Paris Olympics, describes the 34C temperatures at the 2021 Games in Tokyo as “a window into an alarming, escalating norm for Summer Olympics”. “Competitors vomited and fainted at finish lines, wheelchairs were deployed to carry athletes away from sun-scorched arenas and the fea...
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The Paris judicial court has sentenced a man for the theft of a work by renowned street artist Banksy. The artwork, depicting a rat with a box cutter, which was on a billboard near the Centre Pompidou, had been cut out with an angle grinder in September 2019. The defendant, 38-year-old artist and musician Mejdi R., who was absent from the trial according to French outlet Le Parisien, was sentenced on Wednesday 19 June to a two-year suspended prison sentence and a €30,000 fine. According to the defendant, Banksy himself had asked him to steal it. Apparently, the famous British street artist had...
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Louis Vuitton showed its spring-summer 2025 menswear collection outside on the rooftop of the UNESCO building in Paris – a roll of the dice in this city where lately it seems to rain every day. Yet, the weather gods favoured the powerhouse brand, allowing models to strut on grass painted in LV's iconic checkerboard pattern under a rain-free sky. Creative Director Pharrell Williams titled the collection "Le Monde est à Vous" – or "The World is Yours" - symbolising not only luxury but a global unity and wanderlust integral to Louis Vuitton's DNA. Choosing UNESCO as the venue, a promoter of world...
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has attended a military honour ceremony in Paris, as the second day of D-Day commemorations kicks off. He was officially welcomed by French defence minister, Sébastien Lecornu, for a ceremony at the Invalides monument, which the site of Napoleon’s tomb. Zelenskyy is also due to visit the Nexter arms manufacturer in Versailles, which makes the Caesar self-propelled howitzers that France is providing to Kyiv’s forces. The Ukrainian President will later meet with more French officials, including Emmanuel Macron, at the Élysée Palace, after which he is due to make a s...
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