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Vive la charité

BY the time you read this, many French art dealers should have been allowed to open their shops and galleries again, even if in a circumscribed manner far from the free and easy ways of the past. It will be some time yet before the various parcours weeks return to the Carré Rive Gauche in Paris, with crowds of collectors flowing from specialist shop to shop, and probably a similarly long while before the lunching culture flourishes again.

The French trade has made good use, and so has the British, of)said was in principle his ‘last newsletter of the Covid-19 era of confinement’, as they have been a great pleasure of the past eight weeks, full of information, good sense and good humour. I hope that they have been effective in selling for him—and also for his sister’s organic wines, Champs du Lièvre, a La Livinière from the Hérault between Carcassonne and Narbonne, which he loyally promotes and which I look forward to trying. In fact, they will continue.

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