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Parisians: ‘We love Britain’s culture, its energy, its people. It’s sad you don’t love us too’ Peter Allen and Kim Willsher © AFP/Getty Images Boulinier bookshop in Paris, noted for its English-language titles. At the Châtelet branch of Boulinier, a Paris bookshop that has stocked English language books since 1845, shoppers were yesterday reflecting on a spate of British newspaper headlines threatening to send Royal Navy gunboats to board invading French trawlers i...

Last modified on Wed 16 Dec 2020 12.10 EST At the Châtelet branch of Boulinier, a Paris bookshop that has stocked English language books since 1845, shoppers were yesterday reflecting on a spate of British newspaper headlines threatening to send Royal Navy gunboats to board invading French trawlers in the event of a failure to agree a trade deal. Anglophiles like Didier Aubert, 72, a retired civil servant, said the threats were “ridiculous”. “That’s not how Britain used t...