General view from a helicopter of the river Seine which has been overflowing its banks in Paris on June 3, 2016. Paris' Seine River has been climbing steadily following days of heavy rainfall but until now has done little damage beyond the steep embankments on either side. Photo: AP
The Zouave statue at the bridge Pont de l'Alma which serves as a measuring instrument for water levels during floods, is partly overflowing by the river Seine in Paris, on Friday. Photo: AP
Combo of images, from Sunday, April 12, 2015, top, and Friday June 3, 2016 showing the extent of the rise in the floodwaters of the Seine river in Paris. Photo: AP
French officials say that the Seine River is still rising in Paris as France's unseasonable spate of rainfall begins to taper off. Photo: AP
Authorities shut the Louvre museum, the national library, the Orsay museum and the Grand Palais, Paris’ striking glass-and-steel topped exhibition centre. Photo: AP
At the Louvre (pictured in the background), home to Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” curators were scrambling to move some 2,50,000 artworks from basement storage areas at risk of flooding to safer areas upstairs. Photo: AP
The interior ministry says 20,000 people have been evacuated from their homes across France in operations involving thousands of firefighters, military personnel and other officials. Photo: AP
Floods inundating parts of France and Germany have left five people dead and thousands trapped in homes or cars, as rivers have broken their banks from Paris to Bavaria. Photo: AP
Basements and apartments in the capital’s well-to-do 16th district began to flood Friday as the river crept higher, and authorities evacuated a campground in the Bois de Boulogne park on the western edge of the city. Photo: AP
Traffic in the French capital was snarled as flooding choked roads and several Paris railway stations shut down. Photo: AP
Residents evacuate their home in Longjumeau, south of Paris, France Thursday June 2, 2016. Photo: AP
View of the flooded banks of the river Seine in front of the Eiffel tower in Paris, Friday, June 3, 2016. Both the Louvre and Orsay museums were closed as the Seine, which officials said was at its highest level in nearly 35 years, was expected to peak sometime later Friday. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)