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
Guinguette by the Seine Guinguette by the Seine Guinguette by the Seine (Fr. "La Guinguette a deux sous", "the Tuppenny Bar") is a detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring his character Inspector Jules Maigret. While visiting a condemned man in prison, he comments to Maigret that he knows someone at a ""guinguette a deux sous"" (a "tuppenny bar") who is equally deserving of the death penalty. Lenoir further reveals that he and an accomplice had witnessed a man whom they knew from the bar take a body and dump it in the Canal Saint-Martin. Maigret is unable to find this tuppenny bar,