French people affected by the virus … of writing

Under curfew for months, the French hardly go outside, or for a limited time. However, enjoying the great outdoors is essential in many ways, as illustrated in the book L’Air et les Songes. Essay on the imagination of movement (1943), by Gaston Bachelard, which our journalist Ariane Nicolas reread in the light of the crisis. What if we got people to go outside, where the virus – it’s proven! – is transmitted very little, rather than piling up at home?

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