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‘Let them eat stale bread’: Why France is fed up with its mandatory holiday

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| Yahoo Verified
Élodie Lechaptois is planning to open her bakery in Saint-Rémy-sur-Orne, Normandy, on May 1, flouting the law by employing staff - Ibrahim Ezzat Élodie Lechaptois will break the law this morning. She will open her village bakery in the Norman hills at 6.30am. Her two employees will sell her award-winning bread, croissants and patisseries as they do every day except on Wednesdays. But in France this is not every day. On May 1 it is illegal to work, with some vaguely defined exceptions.
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Why France is fed up with its mandatory holiday

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OPINION: Primaries cannot save France from a Trumpian future Original

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| The Local France Verified
Primary elections in the US are like baseball or cheeseburgers: part of the culture and widely understood. Not so in France. Primaries – ie elections to elect a candidate - have a long and patchy history in France and mostly a dysfunctional one. Before the last two presidential elections in 2017 and 2022, primaries were organised by the once-dominant, Centre-Right and Centre-Left parties, the Socialists and Les Républicains.
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