A drunken man has been arrested for trying to put out the eternal flame beneath the Arc de Triomphe monument in Paris, police say. The man was held on Tuesday evening after running towards the ...

PARIS, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- A man who tried to put out the eternal flame honoring France's war dead at the Arc de Triomphe was drunk, Paris police said Wednesday. The man was arrested Tuesday evening ...

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On July 29, 1836—30 years after it was first commissioned by Napoleon—Paris celebrated the inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe. Here are just a few of the stories that are hidden within the ...

A drunken man has been arrested for trying to put out the eternal flame beneath the Arc de Triomphe monument in Paris, police say. The man was held on Tuesday evening after running towards the ...