Already, at the start of the school year last November, l'Oeuvre reported the difficulties that provincial students found in finding accommodation in the Latin Quarter. The hotels were full, the furnished accommodation was nowhere to be found. We told of the misadventure that happened to a group of young people who, all night long, wandered along the streets of the 5th and 6th arrondissements without finding a single room in which to leave their suitcases.

Months have passed. Somehow the students ended up settling at high prices in hotels in the area.

But the Olympic Games are approaching, which will bring thousands of foreigners to Paris. The Latin Quarter, already bursting at the seams, will have its share of visitors, and we are already worrying about making room for them.

The process is simple: we expel the students. Already a hotelier, near the Jardin des Plantes, has just refused the key to around ten of them, telling them “that he was obliged to change his business processes”.

Elsewhere, “monthly” rentals have been completely eliminated. A “per night” room costs 12 francs. You can temporarily keep it for 30 nights; but it costs you exactly 360 francs. Not a penny less.

Finally, some hoteliers - and this has not only happened on the left bank - force their tenants to move which relegates them to the roofs. It is necessary, isn't it, that our guests from the land of dollars and the land of florins are satisfied!

This is not only a form of speculation against which we cannot protest too energetically. It also manifests itself with unacceptable shamelessness towards everything that is not American or Dutch.

We will be very happy to welcome our friends from abroad to Paris. But this is perhaps not a reason for life to be made impossible for the French in Paris.