I’m a bit worried me and Mrs Sparkle won’t be able to see owt over 8 deep crowds on Champs Elysees. I’m buggered if I’m carting a pair of steps all round Paris though.
So, I knocked this up at work. Three bit of, ahem, scrap mdf, cut to size and with slots in.

They slot together like this:

giving a solid platform to stand on. It’s about a foot or so high and is fairly like for lugging round in my rucsack.

Probably doomed to failure but hey ho. 😀

Looks like some kind of new-fangled pipe bomb to me.
I’m sure the French police aren’t prone to overreacting though.

Chapeau that’s ingenious! doubt I’d have thought of that, but then I don’t need to 😉 necessity mother of invention and all that.

Smile sweetly and get lifted on to the back of a parked press bike? Worked for Munqe Chick at the Morzine finish when Floyd Landis infamously won… 8)

Last year, we just got up very early and bagged a place where we could see. It was a long hot wait, but worth it!

I thought it was going to involve two mirrors when I saw the pic 😉

The corner bits where they slot together already look a bit bent – could you redo it with the slits nearer the centre of each board? Might be stronger

Looks like an ankle breaker!

have you considered uneven ground? maybe take some of the wood out between the three corners so it’s more like legs than flat sides.
also, it needs decorating – preferably with slogans like “howdya like yer steak Bertie?” or something witty.

It is a lot stronger than it looks. And neither me nor the Mrs are biffers so I reckon it should be ok. Doubt it’ll get decorated with owt as it’ll be in a Parisian bin by midnight Sunday! ;0)

I know, you should paint them like Masai shields. Froome would love that.

Seating has already been put up on about 50% of the Champs….not sure how much further up it’s going to go, you may struggle to find a spot though!

Is this the sort of stuff that little people do in their spare time?

Well I never. 😀