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Paris: a shortage of taxi drivers to be expected in the city

As tourism resumes in Paris, taxi drivers struggle to keep up as there are not enough of them. At peak hours, it is getting harder to find a taxi, and it is not likely to get better.

History fact, it happened on September 7 in Paris: Paris taxis requisitioned, the “Taxis de la Marne”

On September 6 and 7, 1914, 1,300 Paris taxis are requisitioned by the French army to send backup soldiers to the front for the Battle of the Marne. The “Taxis de la Marne” will carry 6,000 infantrymen and enable to stop the advance of the German armies to Paris.

A man breaks into the Palace of Versailles by night and claims to be the king

A thirty-year-old male broke last night, Saturday October 17, 2020 into the Palace of Versailles. Arrested by the police, covered in a sheet, he claimed he was the king.