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The French lunch hour – famous as a bastion of the French way of life – is under threat.
The government says it’s planning to pass a new decree allowing workers to eat at their desks, a practice officially banned in the country’s labour law. But is this concession to changing times all down to coronavirus?
Like many cultural ideals, the leisurely and elaborate French lunch-break is often defended more in theory than in practice. Even before Covid, the daily queues outside sandwich shops were just as daunting as the waiters straightening tables on café terraces.
In fact, several polls suggest that a majority of French workers have been eating their lunch in the office for years.
But, long under…