A great drought in Parisian journalism

Sylvain Besson, the daily's Paris correspondent, is surprised to see so many of the capital's shops closed for annual holidays. In August, he notes, Paris is a "Potempkin village, emptied of its inhabitants, where all activity has been drawn to a halt. ... In fact it is pretty much the whole country that has shut down until the end of the month, which poses serious problems for those who continue to work. The media, for example, have nothing left to keep them going. A month ago, they were all going on about the Vélib' phenomenon, those new self-service bicycles that you can cycle around Paris on. One month later, 'Le Figaro' is reduced to dedicating its front page to... wait for it... the huge success of the Vélib'. As for the political pages, - four or five per day during the rest of the year, for the main papers- they have disappeared entirely since the beginning of the week. This is the fault of Nicolas Sarkozy who has failed to give us any news since lunching with the Bush family on Saturday."

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