With summer's end, France's annual 'fresh start' truly arrives

Everyone comes home from their summer holidays. There is even a special word for it – la rentrée – which at any other time of the year would simply mean “the return.” But this week, the first week of September, it signifies a key social phenomenon in France, a national fresh start. Because the long summer vacation that lulled the whole country into a state of suspended animation is over.

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