Paris is on fire.

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The roads are said to be melting in Paris - I too would melt in heat in excess of 40 degrees Celsius. That’s 104 degrees in old money and there’s no need for all that heat shooting about. Same thing happened when I lived in Paris many years ago and it made all the Parisians most snarky. Everywhere you went you got your face chewed off by someone who couldn’t take any more. Showers were set up in the streets for people to walk through. Nobody undressed for such showers, things were steamy enough without that kind of frippery, and no-one seemed to object to their leather shoes and mascara getting a good soaking. Of course one of the side effects of showering fully dressed was that it turned into a bit of a wet teeshirt competition in some locales. The city fathers hadn’t reckoned on that - or had they?