Authorities shut the Louvre museum, the national library, the Orsay museum and the Grand Palais, Paris’ striking glass-and-steel topped exhibition centre. ( PIERRE TERDJMAN / NYT ) The river Seine rising on the statue of the Zouave at the Alma bridge in Paris. ( CHRISTIAN HARTMANN / REUTERS ) People look at the flooding Seine river, in Paris on Friday. ( JOEL SAGET / AFP/GETTY IMAGES ) View of the flooded river-side of the River Seine near the Eiffel tower in Paris, on Thursday. Flooding along the banks of the Seine River in Paris on Friday.

Source: thestar June 03, 2016 12:59 UTC