In Bormes-les-Mimosas, tourist city of Var, the shopping street has almost regained its usual animation this week. Again last Saturday, as every day in the past two months, it was as deserted as the main street of an unattractive village. And then the stores, finally, reopened. And customers, to the surprise of traders, entered it - almost - as before. Masks in addition, de rigueur on all faces, and tourists in less ...
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Elsewhere in France too, neighborhood life has resumed its course. The traders, scalded by foreign examples, feared that the French would shun their stores, and would prefer to stay at home safe from the virus. Many of the brands expected attendance to be halved compared to the same week last year, as observed in Germany. The crowds in the shops are certainly not yet that of the usual days of spring. But the dreaded fall did not
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