Elaine Sciolino
Elaine Sciolino
Elaine Sciolino is a writer and former Paris bureau chief for The New York Times, writing from France since 2002. Her new book, "The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs" will be published by W.W. Norton & Co. in November 2015...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes. Though the first functioning two-wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized and marketed the device in the 1860s, giving it the name 'bicycle.'
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Paris will give bicyclists more rights when it installs 4,300 signs throughout the city, allowing them to barrel though red lights and turn right on red.