Seine River Steamers hospital ships during the First World War, as the ghastily wounded British soldiers could be smoothly moved downriver to larger hospital ships at Le Havre. Atlantic Salmon have naturally returned to the Seine almost a century after over fishing and pollution caused them to disappear. Seine River Steamers The Seine River was the scene of many early experiments with steam navigation. The steamship has a long ancestry, dating back at least to 1783 when the Marquis de Jouffray d'Abbans steamed his little boat, the Pyroscaphe, across the Seine. Robert Fulton even exhibited one to Napoleon's regime. With the success of
Rock en Seine Rock en Seine The Rock en Seine festival () is a three-day rock music festival, held at Domaine National de Saint-Cloud, the Château de Saint-Cloud's park, west of Paris, inside the garden designed by André Le Nôtre. The name is a pun, based on exactly the same pronunciation in French of the words "scène" meaning "stage" and Seine (the river separating Saint-Cloud from Central Paris after which the Hauts-de-Seine département is called). The festival takes place in the down of the Park of "Domaine national de Saint-Cloud", a historical place at the gates of Paris, and 5 minutes from the