18 hours?
At this hour, night has already fallen on Saint-Avold (Moselle).
So for Marie, a 73-year-old pensioner, this advanced curfew, which could come into effect on Saturday in 20 departments in the East, will not change much.
Like every afternoon, she will continue to take care of her garden before going to the stove in the evening in her big house.
And for her husband, the main thing remains to hunt wild boar, and this is the case "thanks to a prefectural decree".
Case settled?
It is nowhere near that simple for everyone.
“A 6 pm curfew, nooo!
», Breathes Pascaline, 32, mother of a 9 month old boy and living in Vallauris, in the Alpes-Maritimes.
It is at 6 p.m. sharp that this graphic designer leaves her home to pick up her son 30 minutes later at the nursery.
And when she goes to the office, she rarely comes home before 7 p.m.
"Does that mean we won't be able to go to work anymore?"
Is the nursery going to close earlier?
It turns my whole life upside down!
Maybe we can ask your parents for help?
She says to her companion.
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“For the races, it will be a problem, we were going there at the end of the day… We will have to drive…” also reflected at full speed Elsa, an executive in the suburb of Metz (Moselle).
And to smile: “But the positive point is that my husband will be home from work earlier.
There are plenty of wives who are going to be happy with the news!
“For his daughters, college and schoolgirl, no upheaval in sight: since the second confinement, both return home immediately after class, their keys around their necks, without going through the extracurricular hut.
Above all, the measure risks disrupting high schools
But “for those who cannot do otherwise, I am thinking in particular of caregivers and essential professions who have to keep their children until 7:30 pm sometimes, how are we going to do?
Asks Agnès Le Brun, spokesperson for the Association of Mayors of France.
"We may have to organize ourselves in degraded mode, with access reserved for priority families ..."
Isabelle, for her part, will have to lower the curtain of her hairdressing salon in the Vosges two hours earlier.
But, anticipates this representative of parents of FCPE students, the measure is above all likely to disrupt high schools, "where classes end at 6 pm and where students spend time in school buses".
Difficult also for “professions already very affected, she thinks.
Restaurant owners who were doing take-away sales will have to bring their hours up further… ”
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Pascaline, the young mother of Vallauris, is worried about her morale: "Already we were not seeing many people, it will be really hard".
Benoît, university professor in Lyon, and father of an 8-year-old daughter, made a radical decision in the face of the disaster: taking advantage of his dual Franco-Italian nationality, he fled to Palermo a month ago and a half, where he educated his daughter while waiting for "a less anxiety-provoking climate" in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
"I had the click when, putting a mask on her nose, she asked me why we were no longer allowed to laugh."
He'll be back, he thinks, the day the curfew and teleworking are lifted.