Photo: phileaslecleateur/InstagramDid Barack and Michelle Obama sneak onto the Pont des Arts during a 2009 trip to Paris and attach a love lock? Phileas Le Cléateur believes he has some hot property in his pocket - a padlock with the engraved words "Michelle and Barack, Love forever". Authorities have since removed all the love locks and banned the practice - but not before Le Cléateur and his partner managed to remove around 800 in total. I studied it, talked about it with some friends, then thought: 'Why not, why wouldn't the Obamas put a love lock in Paris'?" The Obamas were indeed in Paris during the summer of 2009 , and did indeed first meet in 1989 - or 20 years previously.

Source: The Local February 02, 2017 15:56 UTC