July 8, 2025
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‘Feel like a mermaid’: River Seine reopens after century-long ban; Parisians rejoice ‘childhood dream’

After more than a century, swimmers returned to the River Seine on Saturday, marking the first official reopening of the iconic waterway for public bathing since 1923.Among the first to take a dip was a 95-year-old Parisian, who joined excited locals at the newly launched Bras Marie swim zone in eastern Paris, one of three […]