ABOUT BOOKS, BOOKSELLERS AND BOOKTOWNS. ESP. IN FRANCE
MAY 31: Today I want to write about culture. About BOOKS and their importance. My point of view is that we all have a lot to learn from France. In France you consider books as equally important for the survival of the nation and for everybody’s well-being as food and drink. Or as president Mitterrand once said: People lose contact to reality, if they are not surrounded by books! This is in a way a continuation of what the old Roman author and politician Cicero once wrote: If man has a lovely garden and a big library he does not need more! This fundamental attitude to books was also very important at the start of the present corona crisis in France. The French government decided at once that bookshops and newspaper kiosks were of fundamental importance and had to continue to be open. That was what happened – except in cases where they closed temporarily due to the safety of the staff. At the same time the on-line sale of boo...