"Les Gens Dans Le Métro", the Instagram account teeming with unusual

• The Instagram account “Les Gens Dans Le Métro” brings together photos and videos of people in the metro in unusual situations.

• Gaëtan, 38, originally from Burgundy, had the idea of ​​creating this account shortly after arriving in Paris.

• Among the nuggets is a video of a barbecue and a couple cooking pancake batter.

You can find everything in the metro, but really everything: people who read but also people who do sports, acrobatics, even exercise bikes.

People who shout at each other but also people who love each other, taking all the passengers to witness.

People who eat but also who cook.

And a whole bunch of other unusual activities spotted by Gaëtan on his Instagram account Les Gens Dans Le Métro.

A veritable nugget factory, with moments that make you smile and others downright bizarre, Gaëtan, 38, from Burgundy, had the idea of ​​creating this account shortly after his arrival in Paris.

The man, who worked in the audiovisual sector for 10 years, is an observer and very quickly the metro becomes, he tells

, "a playground".

A marriage proposal

At first, Gaëtan posted photos on his personal account, then in 2016, he created an Instagram account, with "about twenty photos".

Six years later, here it is with 348,000 subscribers and subscribers, and the account has become collaborative.

Because Gaëtan no longer lives in Paris, which he left after confinement, to settle in the South.

"Tired of Paris, yeah, but the metro, no, I won't get tired of it!"

he said with a laugh to

.

Among the nuggets that Gaëtan has collected in recent years there is this video that has become almost cult among his "followers" of a woman who rots someone on the phone, a certain Daniel, of whom we do not really know if he is his companion, while saying to him just after "see you this evening".

"There is a gimmick that has settled with this Daniel, often people ask me 'how is Daniel'", smiles Gaëtan.

But it's not just people screaming, the proof, this marriage proposal video:

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A barbecue and a couple cooking pancake batter

In the WTF category (“What the fuck”, or “what the fuck”) is this man who is quietly barbecuing in front of a metro ticket terminal, or this man and this woman who are making pastry pancake quietly installed in the oar:

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In short, a whole folklore to which Gaëtan is attached and which even earns him a little bit of money, a few thousand euros a year, thanks to contests, like this one which offers to win a mattress... with necessarily , the photo of someone who walks in the subway with his mattress.

Oh and by the way, if one day you recognize yourself on the publications of "Les Gens Dans Le Métro", know that Gaëtan deletes on simple request.

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