Sundays in France have a different atmosphere to other days, with fewer phone calls, no postman, no delivery men and no one banging on the door.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.
Sundays tend to be a day where just I do nothing but visit people. It's kind of like trick-or-treating.
France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
Sunday is a day of rest.
Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun.
I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.
On weekends, the U.S. was casual; in Italy the weekend was very formal. I came to understand that weekends are about free time, and that one could wear high quality, tasteful products that weren't so formal.
There would probably be less of a frenzy among the French public.
In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.
Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.