The technicians who ordered and then installed these plates must have been hungry - or perhaps just returned from a trip to India.
Avenue Pierre Curie, named in homage to the famous physicist, Nobel Prize winner, husband of Marie Curie, and who distinguished himself in particular for his work on radioactivity, was amusingly renamed “Avenue Pierre Curry”.
The culprits will probably claim an automatic correction error on their phone?
The fact remains that the town hall, quickly challenged by the residents of this avenue located not far from the station, quickly had the misspelled plates removed, without however providing further explanations for this gross error.
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The typo - a journalistic legend has it that this term was born the day a former colleague forgot a letter while writing "coquille", guess which one...) - nevertheless amused Internet users.
For example, one of them imagined Pierre and Marie Curry, two Indian physicists leaning over their piles of yellow spice...
Others have made the connection with the famous NBA basketball player, Stephen Curry.