Russian mountains and the French election

#PARISFOMO and stories from France

Did you know in French the word for rollercoaster is “montagnes russes”? The name dates back to the time someone had the bright (dumb?) idea to go down hilly slopes at high speed for fun, around the Ural mountains in Russia.

One of the earliest modern rollercoasters was in Paris, in the quartier of Belleville in 1812, by the aptly named company Les Mon…