French PM visits town where residents evacuated after flooding Prime Minister Manuel Valls will on Thursday visit Nemours, 80 kilometres (50 miles) to the south of Paris, where residents had to be evacuated after the Loing river burst its banks. "In 60 years of living here I have never seen this," Sylvette Gounaud, a shopworker in Nemours said. "The centre of town is totally under water, all the shops are destroyed." The neighbouring Loiret region, home to the chateau of Chambord, saw the average rainfall of six weeks in just three days. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES