Paris for tourists basically starts with the world famous symbol of France - the Eiffel Tower. Having admired Versailles and the best masterpieces of the Louvre, many guests of the capital finish their tour of the city in a not very popular, but interesting place among travelers - the Objets trouves.
The fact that Paris is a peculiar and unusual city was once again reminded by the employees of the Found Items Service. The largest lost and found service in Europe, which has existed for more than 200 years, has released data on what tourists most often lose in this beautiful city of love. The idea of creating this service is probably very profitable if many forgetful citizens apply to it every day.
The representative of the rare service Patrick Cassignol said that scattered people every day lose thousands of different objects in Paris, and honest and respectable people who find them send things by mail or through police commissariats to the 15th arrondissement of the city, to Rue Morillon, 36, where Lost and Found Service is located.
With reference to the Found Items Service, Agence France Presse reported that Parisians in their city most often lose keys and glasses. And tourists who visit the capital of France forget there wallets, video and photographic equipment, as well as passports and identity cards.
In 2011, the service registered about 186 thousand items. Of these, a quarter have found their owners. About 40% of things that come to the service are brought by employees of city transport. There are strange and even very unusual finds, such as urns for the ashes of the dead, prostheses or musical instruments.
Every day, about 300 scattered citizens turn to the lost and found service in the hope of finding their lost property, and many find it. To pick up an item worth less than 762 euros, you need to pay 11 euros. The return of expensive items will cost 11% of their cost, and the return of documents is a free service.
Detailed information on how the service works, as well as recommendations on how to find a lost item, can be found on the website of the Lost Items Service.
