The demonstration is approaching. “I trained a little in the pool for my personal challenge. I want to show that I know how to swim well,” she responded to journalists present at the press inauguration of the “Paris!” exhibition at the Hôtel de Ville, this Thursday, May 23. A symbolic date for Anne Hidalgo, who promised to swim in the Seine a month later.

The mayor of Paris hopes to attract many politicians to join her “on June 23 or 30,” she said before concluding “I regularly invite people to come and swim, so I think there will be a lot of people. The Seine is talked about all over the world.