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What would win your heart - an alluring first impression or a tempting parting glance?
Sometimes it takes just one retailer to unite an entire neighbourhood and restore a sense of old-fashioned community between residents and other shop owners, restaurateurs and civil servants.
When you look out your window, what do you see?
Everyone, it seems.
Forget the never-ending financial crisis, the subject on everyone’s lips in France is whether the government’s proposed plan to decrease the value-added tax (VAT) on restaurants will have any effect on their takings.
