The sun is reflected vividly on the steel geode of the City of Science and Industry in Paris, on the edge of Parc de la Villette.
It is an unusual 27 ° C on March 31, a few hours before Emmanuel Macron's speech.
Along the Canal de l'Ourcq, there are many joggers and cyclists, sometimes in groups.
In a playground, Pierre, 43, a photographer from Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis), watches his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Line, airing around other children.
At this time of day, he hears that the head of state is striking hard against the coronavirus.
"I would like a containment that would look like the first, to be rid of this virus and return to normal life once and for all.
I prefer, with pleasure, to make efforts and see effects at the end.
We have been undergoing ineffective half-measures for six months.
It's psychologically hard, it's endless, ”annoys the father.
Too cramped accommodation
Charlotte, 40, eats lunch with her husband on a bench.
Their 4-year-old daughter, Mia, waits patiently.
“I hope the schools will stay open.
I don't want to go back to hard confinement, it's paying too much morally.
Very young children need to be taken care of all the time.
And then, I can not trust the government, would we get out of it after a month of severe confinement?
»Doubts the tour guide, deprived of museums.
Since the first confinement, his family has felt cramped in his 45 m² apartment in Bagnolet (Seine-Saint-Denis).
After their picnic, they will visit larger accommodation in Paris, in the hope of experiencing the health crisis more calmly.
The lawns of Parc de la Villette are lively.
The “outside as a citizen” is hardly heard.
The masks are very often lowered under the chin, or even absent, the physical distances little respected.
A sports course brings together thirteen participants, far from the limit of six people recommended by the government.
Several lunches on the grass also exceed this threshold.
Marie and Marc, 28, put down their bikes for a snack.
"Given the rise of the epidemic, it is incomprehensible that the government did not take drastic measures earlier", deplores this restorer of works of art in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis).
"I prefer to be confined in April than in July, and have a horizon in time", adds Marie, intermittent of the spectacle in Paris.
No respect for stricter rules?
But others do not believe at all in respecting stricter rules, such as Mory, in his thirties, a project engineer from Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis).
“The 7pm curfew is not even enforced in my town.
People are no longer afraid of the virus, they have learned to live with it.
So confining Ile-de-France is difficult to manage.
The apartments are too small.
Our living room is outside.
Prohibiting us from going on the docks or in the parks is like closing the door to our own living room.
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Chantal, 59, administrative agent, values her freedom of movement, especially access to parks and gardens.
“I live alone in a small apartment in Rosny-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis), I like to walk and I don't have the possibility of going outside Paris.
I would live badly to stay locked up.
With telecommuting, I no longer feel free to do what I want at home, riveted all day to my computer.
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Mory, the young engineer, regrets that teleworking has become more interesting than face-to-face.
“I no longer see my colleagues during breaks or at lunch break, we eat alone in front of our office.
“For him as for others, the weariness linked to Covid-19 is more and more burdensome.