Paris Métro paper ticket reaches end of the line after more than 120 years

Iconic ticket on one-way trip to transport history as city opts for payment by travelcards and mobiles

It has inspired French film-makers and songwriters, proven useful to cannabis smokers and aestheticians and served as an emergency bookmark or jotter - but now the Paris Metro ticket has reached the end of the line.

The city's public transport authority is phasing out the rectangular pieces of cardboard that have kept the capital's travellers on the move for the past 120 years.