Zouave — Attraction in Paris

‘The soldier who monitors the water levels of Paris’ Have you heard about the Zouave?

I do love good story, and this is one of them.

It is a statue, which has been placed on the Pont de l'Alma in Paris since the 1850s. It is said that when the Zouave has his feet in the water, the River Seine is rising. The footpaths along the embankments beside the Seine were usually closed when the level of the river reached the feet of The Zouave, and the river was unnavigable by the time it...

Took a stroll to see the statue Zouave on le Pont d'Alma. Zouave is the unofficial marker for the Seine when it floods within the city. He was built in 1856 by artist Georges Diebolt, and has been the gatekeeper of the Seine ever since. Finding it from top of the Eiffel Tower was an impossible task 😑

The Seine has flooded numerous times over the last century, the highest being in 1910 where the waters rose to the shoulders of the Zouave! A whopping 8 ish...

3,20m – O estado de alerta é decretado pelas autoridades quando a água chega à base plana sob os pés do Zouave.

3,40m – Quando o nível do rio cobre os dedos dos pés do Zouave as vias de acesso aos passeios que margeiam o Sena são fechadas aos pedestres.

4,30m – Navegação é interditada no Sena quando a água chega até as canelas do Zouave – desde que ele passou a guardar a ponte d’Alma as águas do rio só passaram deste ponto em 5 ocasiões históricas.

5,20m – As barras da calça do Zouave foram atingidas pelas águas em 2000.

6,18m – O rio Sena chegou a molhar os joelhos do Zouave em 1982

7,12m – O rio Sena alcançou a cintura do Zouave em 1955.

7,32m – O rio Sena subiu pouco acima da cintura do Zouave em 1924.

8,62m – O maior recorde já registrado foi na grande cheia de 1910, quando o rio chegou até os...