Hello! Today, a post about the banks of the Seine!
Paris is split in half by the Seine. The north bank is called “rive droite” (right bank) and the south bank is called “rive gauche” (left bank). There are two islands that are on neither bank.
The “left bank” is famous for being the place of artists and intellectuals. There’s Montparnasse and the Latin Quarter, the Eiffel Tower.
The “right bank” has a reputation of being more right-wing, but it’s not true anymore. There’s Montmartre and department stores, the Louvre, the Town Hall, the Concorde… Nowadays the difference is generally considered to be between eastern arrondissements (comparatively poor) and western arrondissements (comparatively wealthy).
In France, blue is the color of right-wing political groups, and red is the color of left-wing political groups. You can see on this map that Paris is split in half from North to South. The poorer arrondissements vote left-wing, the wealthier vote right-wing.
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