Bookseller Philippe Seyrat, wearing a protective face mask, arranges books at La Sorbonne bookstore in Nice as France softens its strict lockdown rules during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in France, May 13, 2020. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
PARIS (Reuters) - Neighbourhood bookstores in France survived the television and later the advent of online shopping. Then came the coronavirus lockdown, an eight-week-long hiatus that has weighed heavily on profit margins and threatens the survival of some stores.
France's bookstores were allowed to reopen on Monday for the first time since March 17 as the government tries to balance the need to resuscitate a crashing economy with the risk that the spread of the new coronavirus accelerates once more.
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