01 April 2016

Paris on April fool's day 2016

Paris métro operator RATP really lightened up today.

Web page Métro - RER : la RATP renomme 13 stations (in French).

 Sampler:

Best (IMHO):

Origine de l'expression « poisson d'avril ».

 Origin of the expression "April fools' day".
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