Cigarette lit with Arc de Triomphe flame: 'The State is erring or trying to mislead us in dramatizing a non-story'
- Posted on August 18, 2025
- By Le Monde
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Cigarette lit with Arc de Triomphe flame: 'The State is erring or trying to mislead us in dramatizing a non-story'
OP-ED. Upon learning that a man received a suspended prison sentence for lighting his cigarette with the flame of the Unknown Soldier in Paris, urologist Bertrand Guillonneau remembered performing the same act in the 1980s after losing a bet.
