The very beginning of 2017... an excellent French initiative: the Night of Geography

In 2017, the French National Geographical Committee (Comité National Français de Géographie, CFNG) initiated the first 'Night of Geography' ('La Nuit de la Géographie') in Paris and a dozen other French cities. It was highly successful, with a great diversity of public and organizers, and hundreds of people attending the events (further information about the 2017 edition).