Hosting the Olympics is always a show of soft power to the world, and so Paris is attempting to present itself in a certain ...

In June 2023, the Paris deputy mayor for public health announced that a committee was being established to consider the prospect of ‘cohabitation’ with the city’s rats. This marked a ...

On the other hand, this story, reported by Gavin Mortimer in The Spectator, strikes me as truly demented (or as a rationalization of failure): There are said to be 6 million rats in Paris.

On Monday, the Paris authority said 5,600 tonnes of waste had yet to be collected. One commentator on Europe1 radio described the situation as an all-you-can-eat buffet for the six million rats of ...

It could be an embarrassment as the Olympics spotlight falls on Paris. “All of the Olympic sites and celebration areas were analysed [for rats] before the Games,” said deputy mayor Anne-Claire ...

New York City began the very first "Urban Rat Summit" in history on Wednesday with Mayor Eric Adams leading opening remarks ...

Living in a very cheap apartment with strangers can be awkward. Usually one keeps to themself and only interacts when bills ...

Some of us get annual inoculations. And there is no shortage of rats in Paris, including along the quays." It is true that rats are a perennial problem in the French capital, and the sight of a ...

Paris has a deeper and stranger connection to ... the diseases, the monstrous rats rumored to dwell under Chinatown. His father worked in the égouts before him, his grandfather too.

Ratatouille (2007): This delightful Disney animated comedy is set in one of Paris’s finest restaurants. In pursuit of his lifelong dream to become a French chef, a determined young rat spurs a ...

Born on November 15, 1951 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, he studied printmaking and painting at the École national superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Le Rat lives and works in Paris, France.