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Are the #French recapturing their traditional joie de vivre after a year of #Covid lockdowns robbed the country of some of its most cherished traditions? As France on Wednesday enjoyed the reopening of indoor #restaurant dining and a relaxation of a #curfew, the third phase in a four-stage lifting of virus #restrictions, the mood was unusually buoyant. In #Paris, where cafe terraces have been thronged nightly since reopening outside on May 19, the stereotypical surly waiter has all but vanished, replaced by smiling servers content to wait tables again.

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