In France, a street dictation took place, which will be included in the Guinness Book of Records as the most massive in the world. The event took place on the Champs-Elysées and gathered more than five thousand participants, the Mir 24 correspondent reports with reference to BFM.TV.
The dictation was written in three stages. The first one involved 1,397 people at the same time. They were asked to write, under dictation, an excerpt from the work "Letters from my mill" by the French writer Alphonse Daudet. The text was read from the stage by journalist Augustin Trapinard.
Marc-Antoine Jamet, chairman of the Champs-Élysées committee and organizer of the Grand Dictation, said that 1,779 desks were installed on the Champs Elysees and traffic was blocked from 07:00 to 23:00, the source notes.
