A handful of bookshops have openly flouted the shutdown, backed by writers, literary critics and tens of thousands of bookworms who argue that books are essential to well-being. Photo: AFP
One of France's best-known authors Alexandre Jardin vowed recently that writers would bail out rebel bookshop owners fined for opening in defiance of a nationwide coronavirus lockdown.
Literature lovers are fuming over the French government's shutting of bookstores, along with all other outlets selling "non-essential" goods or services, for the second time this year
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