Chinese community in Paris to Paris after arriving at Charles de Gaulle Airport. Ethnic Chinese Indochinese families living in provincial French cities felt isolation. They moved to Paris as ethnic Chinese companies opened there. In the 1980s additional Chinese from Zhejiang arrived. In 1998 Guillon wrote that the Chinese now were "a constituent part of the Parisian population." In 2011 several muggings assaults on ethnic Chinese occurred in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, causing ethnic Chinese to hold demonstrations against violence. David Chazan of the BBC wrote that they are perceived as being prosperous and therefore are targeted. In 2016 protests staged by ethnic
Paris–Le Bourget Airport crossing in 1927 in the "Spirit of St. Louis", and had been the departure point two weeks earlier for the French biplane "The White Bird (L'Oiseau blanc)", which took off in its own attempt at a transatlantic flight but then mysteriously disappeared. On 25 June 1940, Adolf Hitler began his first and only tour of Paris, with Albert Speer and an entourage, from Le Bourget Airport. On 16 June 1961, the Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected at Le Bourget Airport. In 1977, Le Bourget was closed to international airline traffic and in 1980 to regional airline traffic, but remains