Post-pandemic pleasure: the French recover the art of living

Alex Klaushofer
4 min readJul 18, 2020
Masks for sale in a Paris market

“We are going to get back to our ‘art de vivre’ and recover our taste for liberty,” President Macron told the French on June 14.

A month later, I took the train-under-the-water from London and found that, indeed, the Parisians are resuming their usual pleasures.

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