There is a chapter on the thousands of films shot on the Seine (Including Midnight in Paris), another one on its numerous small islands and this leads us to the Impressionists all the way to Rouen and Le Havre. There is also Paris Plage, when tons of sand were being brought to the banks of the Seine in the summer (no more, it was too expensive) and the special Brigade fluviale, the police of the river which sadly, serves mostly to find bodies, in case of suicides. In Paris, she mentions her friend the bouquiniste Jacky Galloy who helped her find old book editions, the floods of 1910, which were the topic of a fascinating photo exhibition at Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris and the Zouave of Pont de l’Alma, which serves as a measurement for the level of water. La Seine in Paris with Ile de la Cité and Ile Saint Louis
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