Seine
About Seine
The Seine is a 777-kilometre-long (483 mi) river in northern France. Its drainage basin is in the Paris Basin covering most of northern France. It rises at Source-Seine, 30 kilometres (19 mi) northwest of Dijon in northeastern France in the Langres plateau, flowing through Paris and into the English Channel at Le Havre. It is navigable by ocean-going vessels as far as Rouen, 120 kilometres (75 mi) from the sea. Over 60 percent of its length, as far as Burgundy, is negotiable by large barges and most tour boats, and nearly its whole length is available for recreational boating; excursion boats offer sightseeing tours of the river banks in the capital city, Paris.
On the show — 3 mentions total
Blaise Pascal was in a carriage and the horses bolted and they threw him into the Seine and he nearly died.
from 550: No Such Thing as an Ice Cream at Stonehenge, 2024-09-26 at 00:08:18 · read transcript
Other times Seine came up
There's one other thing about this hotel, which is this, is where the decision was made not to blow up Paris. In the war, Hitler really kind of went off the deep end towards the end, I would say, and he, as the retreat was being sounded, he ordered lots of key bits of Paris, you know, the Louvre, Eiffel Tower, the bridges over the Seine. He ordered them to be wired up with explosives, which they were.
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My fact this week is that in the swimming races at the first modern Olympics the American competitor drops out because the water was too cold. That is amazing and how things have changed now because they've had to change some of the swimming events because there's feces in the Sen. Oh Oh, wow. Actually, well, similarly, now we have a lot of water events happening in the Seine, which is natural water. This was 1896. The swimming events happened in the Med.
544: No Such Thing As An Accidental Stuffed Crust, 2024-08-15 · listen
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Coordinates: 48.8561, 2.3416