Parisians: 'We love Britain's culture, its energy, its people. It's sad you don't love us too' | Brexit
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 âridiculousâ. âThatâs not how Britain used to behave. Civilised countries who are meant to be close allies should not be reduced to this. I comp...
Source: theguardian.com