Just now, down in the south of France, it feels impossible to go out without seeing an air conditioning installation van outside at least one house in every street. After the sleeplessly torrid nights of recent past, we'll soon enough be raiding the savings ourselves.This is a piece I wrote about la canicule for The National.The photograph of the monument below shows us things have been worse: it commemorates the Landes forest fires of 1949 that killed 82...
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