"Before the big bath"

5/22/2020, 6:32:18 PM

The Figaro editorial by Anne-Sophie von ClaerOn the abandoned beach, the French, in many respects exhausted, will they finally have the leisure to go booze in July? This is the question, asked from one end of the hexagonal coast to the other, where the long weekend in progress will offer the municipalities concerned a general rehearsal of the great summer bath. A life-size test of these first pleasures, even more impatient in the heat and th...

On the abandoned beach, the French, in many respects exhausted, will they finally have the leisure to go booze in July? This is the question, asked from one end of the hexagonal coast to the other, where the long weekend in progress will offer the municipalities concerned a general rehearsal of the great summer bath. A life-size test of these first pleasures, even more impatient in the heat and the clear sky.

Which already reveals, from La Grande-Motte to the Wild Coast, the extent of the pitfalls to avoid - laxity, incivility - and measures, hitherto unthinkable, to scaffold: rope enclosures and stakes for "static" stays, voting booths with deckchairs, remote-controlled parasols and other one-way routes from the "dynamic" plots. All regulated by time slots to be fixed online and flow management - which will ignore all the charm of the tide hours ... Access to the big blue will hardly resemble that of the songs of Jonasz or the adventures of De Funès in Saint -Try, even if reappear