Seine River

According to his will, Napoleon, who died in 1821, wished to be buried on the banks of the Seine, a request that was not granted.Until the 1930s, a towing system using a chain on the bed of the river existed to facilitate movement of barges upriver.The Seine River is a very popular tourist attraction.

Some of the victims of the Paris massacre of 1961 drowned in the Seine after being thrown off from the Pont Saint-Michel and other locations in Paris.Dredging in the 1960s mostly eliminated tidal bores on the river, known as “le mascaret.”In 1991, the banks of the Seine in Paris—the Rive Gauche and Rive Droite—were added to UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in Europe.The river is a popular site for suicides and the disposal of bodies of murder victims. In 2007, 55 bodies were retrieved from its waters; in February 2008, the body of supermodel-turned-activist Katoucha Niane was found there.

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