How I survived the record Paris heatwave while seven months pregnant

It feels as if we are being abandoned to our fate by those in power, with further extreme heat expected next week In the summer of 2019, I had a “fun” idea for a piece. Paris was due to experience its hottest day in history, and I proposed travelling around the city trying out its various cooling-off strategies to see if they would help. Reader, it was not fun and they did not help. Last week, Paris experienced its worst period of catastrophic heat on record, worse than that day in 2019, and wor