Carte – Swimming in the Seine becomes a reality this Saturday with the opening of three sites: Bercy, Grenelle and Le Bras Marie. Instructions before chopping a head on the Paris River.
“I will swim in the Seine before the witnesses to demonstrate that it has been cleaned again”: this emblematic statement of Jacques Chirac, launched in November 1988 during her campaign for the City of Paris, had remained a dead letter. Four decades later, the promise is about to come true. Taken for the impulse of the Olympic Games, the ambitious project for the reopening of swimming in SENA finally was born this Saturday. Until August 31, if and only if the sanitary conditions allow it, Parisians and visitors can bathe in three places equipped in the heart of the capital: in the Marie arm, in front of the island of Saint-Louis; in Bercy, near the National Library of France; And in Grenelle, in front of the island …