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Proof: The story of Paris's 'cursed' Seguin Island

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{"first_seen":"2026-09-27T17:21:07Z","headline":"The story of Paris's 'cursed' Seguin Island","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"lemonde","url":"https://www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/article/2026/09/27/from-renault-factories-to-contemporary-art-center-the-story-of-paris-s-cursed-seguin-island_6758012_117.html","v":1}

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SHA-256

18af192129aa0f5e1b4ddaaa6c5bc4a21320a8508fc45cfff5fd39f0d20ca46d

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 968896, mined 2026-09-27 21:31 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 02:51 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 02:35 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-18af192129aa.json prints 18af192129aa0f5e1b4ddaaa6c5bc4a21320a8508fc45cfff5fd39f0d20ca46d. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-18af192129aa.json and headline-18af192129aa.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-18af192129aa.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 3 h 55 min after it was first seen.