The sun was out, the brasserie was open and four Parisian friends — two authors, a singer and an environmental campaigner — were celebrating the resumption of old habits. “It’s like the liberation of Paris in 1944,” said the singer, who asked to be identified only by his stage name of Monsieur Untel (Mister Such and Such), as he finished an espresso that had cost him €3.40 at Le Select, a brasserie in the Montparnasse district of the capital. “If we had flags, we’d wave them, just like they did then.”The feeling was widespread. After being ordered to close on March 15 as the coronavirus epidemic arrived in France, bars, cafés and restaurants reopened yesterday after a government announcement last week that the country

Source: The Times June 03, 2020 00:22 UTC