1 July, 2026 In Versailles, this month, a group of students gave their exams in an underground parking lot: it was the only cool place in the building. In other French schools classes were held in the hallways to escape from the classroom oven, and cases of children fainting at 40 °C (104 °F) went viral. More than 1,300 schools closed in a single week because one could not breathe inside. In a Paris hospital (a typical case, not an exception) on…
1 July, 2026 In Versailles, this month, a group of students gave their exams in an underground parking lot: it was the only cool place in the building. In other French schools classes were held in the hallways to escape from the classroom oven, and cases of children fainting at 40 °C (104 °F) went viral. More than 1,300 schools closed in a single week because one could not breathe inside. In a Paris hospital (a typical case, not an exception) on…