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Top Paris restaurants to sell off 20,000 tableware items
Pieces set to go on sale include glassware, cutlery, and silverware, as well as bistro tables and chairs. Money raised will go in part to charity
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Tips to save money on heating your French home
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Paris metro station Villejuif-Gustave Roussy named world’s most beautiful
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French flats warmed by passing Metro trains
Tenants of a social housing building in Paris are saving on their heating bills as it has been adapted to be warmed by passing trains on the Metro.
Around 20 flats in a building on rue Beaubourg in the 4th arrondissement have seen their heating bills drop by about €70 a year after a heat pump was installed to capture and filter hot air generated by trains on the underground network.
The scheme is being rolled out to other buildings along the Metro’s Ligne 11.
