Paris Champs-Élysées hosts spelling bee competition.
Almost 1,400 people participated in a record-breaking spelling exercise on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, which was turned into an open-air classroom for the event. The competition consisted of three rounds, with the first recognised by Guinness World Records as the largest such competition ever. French spelling is notoriously tricky, but around 5,000 people, many of them schoolchildren, took part in the "Grande Dictée des Champs".