{"id":631,"date":"2020-04-25T10:24:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T08:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amotherinfrance.com\/?p=631"},"modified":"2020-04-25T10:24:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T08:24:08","slug":"lockdown-france-this-is-not-a-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amotherinfrance.com\/lockdown-france-this-is-not-a-drill\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown France \u2013 This is not a Drill!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The rumours had been flying. President Macron was to make a speech to the nation on Thursday 12th<\/sup> March, 8pm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Earlier that day we\u2019d been talking to our second eldest son, who lives in Montpellier 3 \u00bd hours from our home in the countryside SW of Toulouse.\u00a0 It was his 26th<\/sup> Birthday and he was home alone.\u00a0 We put him on speaker phone and chatted over lunch. \u00a0The main topic was of course the spread of the Coronavirus.\u00a0 We speculated on what Macron might announce later that evening and how it may affect us all.\u00a0 I was trying to persuade him to come home.\u00a0 He lives in a small apartment on the 3rd<\/sup> floor in the city. I thought he\u2019d be much safer with us. He was reluctant to leave his home. He was in between jobs having just recovered from some major surgery last year, but his partner had work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n