One of the first things that French President Emmanuel Macron said about the coronavirus – and one of the only ones that a vast majority of people remember is that “we are at war” with it. “At war” may have seemed a bit much when he gave his speech in the early days of the […]
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Will the coronavirus kill French cafés? I certainly hope not! As you’ll see in the photo, the café (this picture was taken at the Café des Foudres, Place Martin Nadaud, Paris 20) is my office – and I’m not alone. The day the charming waitress (can one still say that? or is it “wait person
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One of the funniest things about the coronavirus, if anything about the coronavirus can be funny, is the way different cultures apply social distancing. In the States, the “social distance” is a nice 2 meters. In France, it is half that (although more and more signs indicate that the safe distancing is more likely to
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