Champs-Elysees Becomes Sea of Wheat for a Day
<i> Associated Press</i>
PARIS —
The Champs-Elysees, the most famous street in Paris, was transformed into a giant field of golden wheat Sunday during an eye-catching promotion for French agriculture.
An army of 1,500 farmers laid down sections of turf, creating a wheat field containing 3,600 tons of grain across a long stretch of the avenue starting at the Arc de Triomphe, then mobilized a fleet of tractors to harvest it.
Police estimated that more than 300,000 gathered along the avenue.
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