Luc Gwiazdzinski

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Cafe culture returned to Paris, last Tuesday, and the French Capital , re-discovered your joie de vivre

anxiety is something that 88-year-old Mathilde is within easy. Sitting on The Terrace of the local bistro In Paris , hours after it opened and again This Week , she sipped a carbonated drink, as The Morning sun drew sweat from your glass.

"I've been waiting for," She Said . "Being surrounded by people who don't be alone anymore!"

Mathilde had dressed for the occasion: a printed dress, perfectly styled hair.

the Public life here, has always required a little extra effort. For its cafes and restaurants, which means that new rules on Seating, new cleaning procedures, and hand sanitizers everywhere you look.

masks and hand sanitizer are the new normal In Paris now

"of course I'm scared," said her friend, Annie, 10 Years younger. "But, you know, at our age, we have a lot of time, so at some point we have to make it easy. "

Why an empty Paris lost its identity

Many people have expressed relief that the Paris are open, the bars and cafes and the terraces full.

There was something about the emptiness of this city, in particular, in the case of lockdown that was particularly poignant, says Joan Dejean, author and historian of the French culture, because the fate of Paris was to be seen: "Paris was deliberately designed for The People in The Streets , to be seen to be appreciated visually," she told me.

"If you lose there are no pedestrian crossings, look at everything, from The Gardens of the large houses on the Ile St Louis, your raison d'être. "

blocking Paris was a far cry from its usual bustling pace

During the lockdown, she says, there were two cities, especially photographed for their emptiness: Venice and Paris. Venice, to show what The City looked like without the tourists; Paris, to show, to realize how difficult it was to enjoy The City without people, it.

dolphins spent the lockdown in a camping chair outside with other parents in Montmartre

"I loved it even more," said Delphine, a long-term Paris resident. "You heard The Birds . I had an end-of-lockdown blues; I felt attacked a little, The People were back in The Streets . "

The Gradual return of normality to the design of familiar prescriptions.

Delphine has two daughters and lives in the vicinity of Basilica of the Sacré-Cœur Church . As lockdown began to ease, you and other young parents took to see camping chairs in The Streets of Montmartre, as their children play Football .

A bustling Café in the rue de Buci, 2. June

Recently, Delphine says, A Man leaned out the window and told them that he was working from home, and stop so much noise.

"Behind him, we were able to hear, to leave as his wife is screaming at us," Delphine said. "Clearly, you were at the load limit. "

Not all The People In Paris were unhappy says

Alane Kaduri, psychiatrist at the Cochin hospital In Paris , he was surprised by The Number of people who actually preferred delivery.

"Those who are afraid of the social relations felt safe during the lockout," He Said . "Those who love find life complicated, not to ask questions; and the young people were happy to stay At Home to play Video Games , and Social Media . "

But He Said there was a large gap between The Experience of the citizens, and many of the Nurses in the hospital.

the Nurses left exhausted by the pandemic and many of them feel unappreciated

"One out of ten Nurses have been attacked during the lockout," He Said . "Some were asked to leave their apartment, their neighbours, because of the contagion risk. "

Now, the Normal Life back, he says, he sees some of them break. "They're all afraid of The Second wave, and you are exhausted," He Said . "I've heard of 30-year-old Nurses to climb stairs. "

Who is important in today's Paris?

Rolande Mariel is a nurse, also works at the Cochin hospital. Since the pressure on the Health System easier, and not Covid patients for treatment, she says, to be the public support seems to be waning.

"When our patients started Coming Back they were so aggressive, as usual," She Said . "I told you it was pointless to clap for us every night, if you go, behave! People have short memories. After the Bataclan [terrorist attack], The Cops were heroes, and now everyone thinks they want to kill us. "

As this city begins to come alive again, after months of social and economic coma, the feeling that is important to Paris, re-mixed.

As One scientist put it, who is most valuable to you: a top Executive to Work from home, or The Man who delivers food to your mother?

And what was in the yellow vest of the protests of the last few years was brought home strongly again: The People who Work In Paris - the waste-collectors, train drivers, teachers and Nurses - cannot afford To Live here.

"We are not the same quite," says geographer Luc Gwiazdzinski .

The Palace of Versailles outside Paris, is among The Tourist destinations again

a lot of the wealthier Parisians are already thinking of you from the Capital - as many of you during the blocking of the self - and tele-working from home in the landscape.

smaller provincial towns could benefit, he says, in a country where Paris dominates the French economy. But what does this mean For Life in the Capital itself?

"Paris is like The Phoenix ; it will be born again," He Said . "Paris is not just an economic, hub, it has a romantic, unreal world. Its image as the Capital of love, the romance was not damaged. But for The People who live here, it was a different story. "

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Source of news: bbc.com