Nicolas Sarkozy has sorted out his troubled home life, after a fashion. The planned swimming pool at the Fort de Brégançon, a Cécilia project if Le Canard Enchainé is to be believed (and it often is), has presumably been put on hold.
Now, with the transport and public service unions playing their ritualistic part on the streets, he must turn his attention to remodelling French working patterns and practices.
One of the more interesting aspects of his early presidential career will be the issue of whether he lives up to all that pre-election reforming promise, or sinks into the traditional swamp of French surrender politics.
My picture is almost certainly a poor example of the malaise Sarko must cure. There will be a perfectly good reason for the advertiser to offer such limited summer hours of business. We do not know, for example, how many of those afternoon meetings there are, or how long they last.
But just think if it were true. If everyone stuck to such an agreeable working life - six half days a week, with the occasional afternoon rendez-vous - would we all be twice as happy, or would the world simply come to a halt?
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