Laboratoire Nuxe recollects success as it celebrates 30th anniversary year trbusiness.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from trbusiness.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
“We’ll always have Paris,” Humphrey Bogart told Ingrid Bergman in
Casablanca.
But Paris is gone for now, its lifeblood cut off by the closure of all restaurants, its nights silenced by a 6pm curfew aimed at eliminating the national pastime of the aperitif, its cafe bonhomie lost to domestic morosity. Blight has taken the City of Light.
The Panthéon before the 6pm curfew begins in Paris.
Credit:New York Times
Taboos fall. People eat sandwiches in the drizzle on city benches. They yield oh, the horror! to takeout in the form of “click-and-collect.” They dine earlier an abominable Americanisation. They contemplate with resignation the chalk-on-blackboard offerings of long-shuttered restaurants still promising a veal blanquette or a boeuf bourguignon. These menus are fossils from the pre-pandemic world.