Le Plus Ca Change
<p>My husband and I lived in France for nearly a decade in the seventies and eighties, in the dark ages before the Internet and smartphones. Though we’ve been back to visit every few years since then, our recent stay this fall made us keenly aware of some interesting changes since the years when we lived there — none of them related to the advanced technology. Here are just a few examples:</p>
<p><strong>1 —</strong> <strong>Perhaps the most noticeable change and surely the most welcome: how much friendlier and more helpful people in Paris are now.</strong> It’s no secret that many visitors have memories of aloof, less-than-helpful Parisians they encountered. (An American friend who’s lived in Paris since the sixties says she remembers explaining to her visitors, “they’re not treating you that way because you’re a foreigner. That’s how they treat one another.”)</p>
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