Though the city has talked about cleaning up the Seine since the 1990s, the real push came in 2015 when Paris made a bid to ...

Paris lifted its century-long swimming ban over the weekend, only for the ban to be reinstated a day later after rainfall led ...

From Little Africa to the jazz cafes where Josephine Baker performed, here’s where to immerse yourself in the art, food, and ...

Enter the dance of past centuries, without leaving the Seine-et-Marne! On July 12 and 13, 2025, Compans (77) dons its ...

As Paris’s deputy mayor, Ian Brossat massively expanded the French capital’s public housing stock. He spoke to Jacobin about ...

People enjoy the water at the Grenelle safe bathing site on the Seine River in Paris, France, Saturday, July 5, 2025.

A major international competition has been launched for the €135.7 million transformation of the Musée du Louvre in Paris ...

French Archbishop Thibault Verny is the Vatican's new president of its Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors ...

Parisians rushed for a dip in the Seine on Saturday as authorities opened the river to public swimming for the first time ...

Parisians and visitors looking to cool off this summer can dive in -- weather permitting -- at three bathing sites.

First, France cleaned the polluted river so that Olympians could swim there. Now, a year later, it is opening three sites for ...

Horrible water quality made it illegal to swim in the Seine for more than a century, but the Olympics pushed forward to hold ...