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Tonight we're recreating things that we may have sacrificed a little too quickly." Jean Castex could not have said better. After more than 150 years of existence, the night train gradually left the rail, until it was reduced to two lines (Paris-Briançon and Paris-Albi) in 2017. It took four years, dozens of petitions and appeals from elected officials for the Prime Minister to finally announce the redeployment of night trains.
Thus, on May 20, 2021, the head of government inaugurated the Paris-Nice night line. The first, therefore, to rise from the ashes. And for the occasion Jean Castex, passionate about trains and euphoric at the idea of sleeping again in a compartment, does not hesitate to use small grandstand effects. "Ladies and gentlemen, exceptionally it is not your captain who speaks to you, but the Prime Minister who welcomes you aboard the night intercity train 5773 to Nice-Ville," he announced to passengers at the microphone. One...
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