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Photos: Unique wooden Mercedes 300 SL up for auction in northern France
Cabinet maker built car out of Asian teak construction
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France’s top literary prize in 2025 awarded to author Laurent Mauvignier
Author receives just €10 in prize money under the rules of the Prix Goncourt
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Stepchildren: French MPs approve higher inheritance tax allowance
The pre-tax allowance is greater than before, but there are conditions
Paris metro zipline plan is a non-starter
Unusual ideas to change up the capital
Paris residents came up with some wacky ideas to improve the capital... like a zipline slide from Buttes-Chaumont to Laumière metro or a water tanker to spray people urinating in the street.
Other ideas to plant a tree in all arrondissements to ‘mark the secular state’ and setting up ‘voter ashtrays’ where smokers vote by choosing one or other ashtray could be approved.
