French people still carefree

Despite the drastic announcements of Edouard Philippe on Saturday evening, Parisians and tourists continued on Sunday to stroll through the streets of the sunny capital. Like nothing ever happened. It floated in the Luxembourg garden or on the banks of the Saint-Martin canal, black with people, a holiday air.

In the popular Bastille district, many young people, often students, continued to sit down and drink until late at night. Just like in the " rue de la soif " in Rennes, where some said they wanted to " drink the last beer before the apocalypse ". The inhabitants of the 11th arrondissement of Paris were shopping, without care, in the usual rush of the Aligre market.

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As for the parents, we saw them with their children in the squares: “ We need to breathe. They are untenable in the apartments, ”they justified. After all, is the solution necessarily to stop everything, questions Jean-Paul Croizé, retired in Vernon (Eure) who feels

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