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More French train stations lose their manned ticket desks
SNCF says it will help it invest more in trains but workers say ticket machines cannot replace people
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Waze sends thousands of drivers a day through small village in France
‘Our streets are not designed to cope with this amount of traffic’ the mayor says of the so-called ‘Waze effect’
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Driving fine bonanza as France increases number of speed cameras
More than €2bn taken in 2023, says government report
10.2m visitors set record for Le Louvre
The Louvre museum in Paris broke its visitor numbers record in 2018, with 10.2 million over the year - a rise of 25% compared to 2017.
Museum president Jean-Luc Martinez said that a music video of Beyoncé and Jay-Z, shot at the museum, and the opening of the Louvre in Abu Dhabi had boosted its reputation.