French City Revisits Its Roots To Cash In On Olympics

by Eleanor Beardsley, NPR

More than 450 years after being liberated from the English, the French coastal town of Calais is boasting of its links with the traditional enemy across the English Channel. The 2012 Olympics are in London, and Calais is determined to win some of the attention and money associated with the event.

Broadcast Dates

• Morning Edition, June 4, 2010