Curtains down, windows abandoned. Since Tuesday noon, the booksellers have resolved to close their doors, but they are having a very hard time. There were first, last Friday, the words of Emmanuel Macron evoking, about the period of confinement, the "essential" character of books and reading. And Thursday morning at the microphone of France Inter, the Minister of Economy, Bruno Le Maire, who suggested that a reopening scenario was possible. Words which have given hope for gestures, but which will not come. They have even become unthinkable given the evolution of health conditions. The booksellers have given up asking for a reopening of their establishments. "This is not a track that we are studying , sweeps Xavier Moni, the president of the Syndicat de la librairie française (SLF). We cannot put people at risk while the situation is getting worse. ” For more than 3000 booksellers, the period which opens will reveal the great fragility
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