A PARIS HOLIDAY
Camping Is Popular (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter) PARIS. Young tourists, trying to cut costs on their Paris holiday are engaged in a battle of wits with authorities in the city’s exclusive Bois De Boulogne. Parts of the park, which contains the Longchamps and Anteuil racecourses, are dotted with the tents of enterprising visitors, including families trying to economise on hotel bills. The French press has dubbed this as “camping cauvage” (wild camping) and police have begun special car patrols of the giant park to evict the campers, whom they say are breaking the park rules. “We bring interpreters with us to explain to the visitors that such camping is forbidden,” one policeman explained. “I think however we are fighting a losing battle. We give them 24 hours to move on, but as soon as the patch of land is cleared someone else moves in.”
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32386, 27 August 1970, Page 19
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144A PARIS HOLIDAY Press, Volume CX, Issue 32386, 27 August 1970, Page 19
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