The River Seine has overflowed after days of torrential rain, with more forecast in the coming days and flood warnings still in place for large parts of France.
With the 2024 Paris Olympics in mind, the city leaders are determined to make the River Seine clean and safe for swimming for athletes, and all the city's inhabitants. Gwendoline Gaudicheau finds out how they are progressing.
The Seine in Paris has been flooding for days and is set to reach a peak of 6.2 metres on Saturday. Here's a look at the the river before and after the floods hit the French capital.
Paris was on alert Saturday as the swollen River Seine continued to creep higher, with forecasters expecting the flooding to peak at the end of the weekend.
The Seine in Paris continued to rise on Thursday, covering quays and putting museums on an emergency footing as the river gets set to reach a peak of up to 6.2 metres on Saturday. Here are the latest images from the floods.
The water levels of the River Seine in Paris were set to continue rising on Tuesday and look set to reach four metres above the usual level. The capital's residents have been warned to take "extreme caution".
A huge rescue operation was underway on Friday to save a policewoman who disappeared in the rising waters of the River Seine during a training exercise near Notre Dame Cathedral.
Paris is set to transform abandoned spots along the River Seine as part of a project to rejuvenate life by the city's river. Rouen and Le Havre are also giving their own river banks a makeover further downstream.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said Wednesday the city's 2024 Olympic bid envisaged a huge clean-up of the Seine river which she
hopes would allow athletes to swim beneath the Eiffel Tower.
Four people have died and 24 been injured in this week's near recording floods in France, prime minister Manuel Valls confirmed on Saturday morning, as the waters showed the first signs of receding.
Floods continued to cause chaos in France on Thursday as authorities in Paris are getting increasingly worried by the continuous rise of the River Seine.
Plans are afoot to install a "water wheel hotel" on the banks of the River Seine that would see guests sleep in rotating pods that rise and fall above the City of Light.
While most Parisians would rather move to the banlieues than voluntarily get in the Seine, the city's mayor Anne Hidalgo has claimed the Paris river will be clean enough to swim in by the 2024 Olympics.
A man drowned in the River Seine early on Wednesday in Paris after he was pushed into the water from behind while he was peeing, French media reported. Police aren’t sure if it was a prank gone wrong or a violent reprisal.
A Parisian doing a spot of fishing in the Seine river was left gobsmacked after reeling in what looked like a piranha fish, it emerged on Tuesday. The fish was actually a pacu, known as 'ball-cutter', after its proclivity for biting off men's testicles.
Local officials have called for a natural disaster to be declared in the Aube department, after heavy rainfall caused Seine river to break its banks and lead to widespread flooding and extensive damage to property in the area.
They say you can't beat City Hall, but Paris authorities who once took a dim view of the thousands of "love locks" adorning the bridges of the Seine river have had a change of heart.
