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Closing of bookstores: in the chapter of unreason

2020-10-31T11:08:37.879Z


THE CHRONICLE OF FRANÇOIS AUBEL - Jean Castex has confirmed it: booksellers are not considered essential businesses. In order not to subject them to unfair competition, the big brands had, just as curiously, to close their book shelves.


François Hollande, invited from Europe 1, on Thursday morning, admits it: he goes to his bookseller more often than to a delicatessen.

He does not ask his butcher to close but would like the bookstore curtains not to be lowered.

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In Voltaire's country, hardware stores, tobacconists, wine merchants and many other traders remain open.

Not the booksellers, considered "non-essential".

“Macron took this decision at the last moment against the advice of a large part of his government.

And I find that disastrous "

, estimates the designer and director Joann Sfar at the microphone of Augustin Trapenard in" Boomerang ".


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Not without a certain bitterness, Alex Vizorek tried to joke about it in his morning post on France Inter.

He would have liked to confine himself to a bookstore.

To reread

Sartre's

Huis clos

, it is topical.

Or

To the happiness of the ladies of Zola

, just to taste a little more department stores, the pleasures of buying

“face to face”

as we say now.

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Source: lefigaro

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