A Letter From Paris, Where the New Normal Is Less Grouchy Than You’d Expect
Through Three Lockdowns, Parisians Have Read, Biked, and Even Behaved Like Tourists in Their Own Town
What is the new normal here in Paris? The answer is one that’s less grouchy than you might expect. Mais ça commence à bien faire—it’s getting a little much.
We’re more than a year out from #TheMoment, March 17, when the first lockdown in France began. At that crossroads where countries made different political decisions, France chose to put health first.
Now, as we settle into a third lockdown, to encounter someone without a mask in the street is startling. Every few streets or so, outside every pharmacy, there are little collapsible …
