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If you are trying to escape the autoroutes by trying the Nationales, frankly that is not a good choice, everything is blocked: the Nationale 1, Nationale 6, the Nationale 7, the Nationale 118, with 6 ..eh.. plus 14, with a 20 km of slow-down before Velizy Villacoublay, no before Sevres, you have understood, before Sevres, a good 20 km on the Nationale 118. Nationale 20 an equal success; the Nationale 13, I forgot to mention just now; the Autoroute 86, you won't doubt it, already corked. In normal times, oh la, it's a horror, the interior just as the exterior.

Once you have arrived at Paris, 'when' you have arrived, there is on the interior 28 difficult kms, on the Peripherique Chapelle-Maillot, exterior, 6 km, St Cloud-Orleans; and 23 km between the Porte de Gentilly and the Porte Maillot. And finally, in Paris itself you are slowing down everywhere. The Boulevards Marechals, to escape the Peripherique, there you are also doing good: you are also blocked in the north as in the south. Quai de Bercy, of course, on the side of the rue St Antoine to height of the Porte de Bagnolet, the side of the axis of Chapelle to the south of Leclerc, the avenue de Lille to the Pont d'Austerlitz; you are blocked everywhere.

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