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Parisians and tourists flock to car-free Avenue des Champs-Elysées

The sunny weather helped the success of the first once-per-month car-free Sundays on the normally traffick-choked, eight-lane avenue in central Paris.

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Thousands of people have taken advantage of a move by the authorities in Paris to close the famous Champs Elysées thoroughfare to traffic, reports BBC News.

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