This past summer, France saw temperatures as high as 114 degrees. This temperature beat the previous record which was under 105 degrees in 1947. This heatwave took many tourists by surprise.  In France, and in Europe, it is very common to have un-air-conditioned homes and buildings, and many tourists to France this year did not even consider buildings not having air conditioning.  “We were not expecting this, so when we booked our Airbnb, we literally didn’t check that it doesn’t have air conditioning,” said Sampada Jadhav, 32, sitting under the trees at the Jardin du Palais Royal with her spouse Jay Ghag. During France’s Pride Parade in June, patches of asphalt melted during the parade. The Jardins du Trocadero, which is a giant fountain, was turned into a swimming pool as many people swam around to cool off from the heatwave. The main unfortunate side effect of this heatwave was that more than 1,500 people passed away this summer. As sad as these deaths were, they thankfully did not come close to the horrible death toll in the summer heatwave of 2003, in which 15,000 people passed away. During the summer heatwave, France's Environment Minister Élisabeth Borne sent out advice to people telling them to avoid traveling.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/09/summer-heatwaves-in-france-killed-1500-says-health-minister

    

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      In an area filled with lower and middle-class people, the walls are filled with street art that depicts Dakar, Senegal’s culture (Independent “In Dakar, street artists…”). These paintings show cultural art such as a Muslim holy man doing laundry, an African woman in a hurry or simply two women socializing (Independent “In Dakar, street artists…”). The Senegalese people call this street art project “the open sky museum” (The New York Times “Who Needs Canvas…”). People have even come from other countries just to add their own art to these Senegalese walls. Senegal has seen artists from countries such as Burkina Faso, Algeria, Morocco, Congo, France, and Italy (The New York Times “Who Needs Canvas…”). Mr. Mamadou Boye Diallo, who is also known as Modboye, is truly the man who started this project (Independent “In Dakar, street artists…”).In 2010, Modboye created a nonprofit art collaboration called Yataal Art. This began the first wall art. Modboye painted the first wall painting with some of his friends (Independent “In Dakar, street artists…”). It was difficult to begin the project as it was hard to convince homeowners to allow others to paint on their house’s walls, but once the project began, neighbors began to “compete” against each other to have the most decorated walls (Independent “In Dakar, street artists…”).

Sources:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/street-art-dakar-senegal-painting-mural-sky-museum-a9216901.html