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Attal said the government was considering adding the Rhone, Aube and Nievre regions to its list of COVID-19 high-risk zones which need careful monitoring and may need restrictive measures.

Take a town I know well, Cosne-sur-Loire in the unfashionable Nievre department, south-east of Paris.

They took their eldest child, John, with them; Niki, then a few months old, was sent to her grandparents’ château, in ����è������.

An official report on the Nievre in 1844 described the strange mutation of the Burgundian day-laborer once the harvest was in and the vine stocks had been burned: “After making the necessary repairs to their tools, these vigorous men will now spend their days in bed, packing their bodies tightly together in order to stay warm and eat less food. They weaken themselves deliberately.”

You didn’t have to live abroad to be a legitimate citizen of the world, I decided; it was by investing yourself in the place you lived that you created the world’s legitimate variety — her ����è������ farm, my parents’ Indiana college town, my Manhattan.