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Parisians last night enjoyed a taste of lockdown freedom ahead of Christmas, while hospitality workers took to the streets in protest at a festive season ban.  In a Christmas Village at Hotel de Ville in the heart of the French capital last night, masked revellers were seen enjoying fairground rides and market stalls. But while some enjoyed the festivities, just a short distance away, near the Arc de Triomphe, face mask-wearing police officers protested their working conditions. Hospitality workers also protested a possible ban on reopening bars and restaurants until January 20. It comes as...

PARIS (AP) — While French chef Michel Solignac labored over his hot stoves, his baby son Nicolas would watch him from his playpen in the corner of the kitchen. The now 30-year-old Nicolas grew up with cooking in his genes and, quite naturally, took over the restaurant when his father hung up his apron a few years ago. The coronavirus has now shattered their world. “A sledgehammer blow,” Michel Solignac says. The cash reserves that he squirreled away over decades for a rainy day when the restaurant was thriving have carried the business through this disastrous year. But the little tha...

In Paris, restaurants, bistros and bars plead for work, aid by John Leicester, The Associated Press Posted Dec 14, 2020 1:31 pm EDT Last Updated Dec 14, 2020 at 1:44 pm EDT Maider Laduche, owner of the Plazan bar, in Ascain, southwestern France, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, hangs banners outside his bar protesting of the closures due to the pandemic. (AP Photo/Bob Edme) PARIS — While French chef Michel Solignac laboured over his hot stoves, his baby son Nicolas would watch him from his playpen in the corner of the kitchen. The now 30-year-old Nicolas grew up with cooking in his genes and, quite n...