Tag: Olympic Games

Paris Preserves Its Mixed Society by Pouring Billions Into Public Housing

The two-bedroom penthouse comes with sweeping views of the Eiffel Tower and just about every other monument across the Paris skyline. The rent, at 600 euros a month, is a steal. Marine Vallery-Radot, 51, the apartment’s tenant, said she cried when she got the call last summer that hers was among 253 lower-income families chosen […]

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In France, Reports of Bedbugs Fuel Anxiety Ahead of 2024 Olympics

In France’s lower house of Parliament, a top opposition lawmaker held up a small vial for all her colleagues to see. Its contents, she warned in a fiery speech this week, were “spreading despair” around the country. “Must we wait for your office to be infested before you finally react?” the lawmaker, Mathilde Panot, told […]

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