In the headlines: words that we thought were forever gone: freedom, optimism, hope, happiness

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By: Andréane Meslard

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It is indeed the happiness that spreads over the front pages of several newspapers this morning. And there goes that happiness, he takes his ease in Nice-Morning front page " These news that do good " writes the daily, how not to want to know more. The daily highlights the decline in the number of coronavirus cases identified, the closure, here and there, of Covid and Nice-Matin units also tells us about the twelve municipalities of the Alpes Maritimes which will reopen their beaches. For this first weekend after, Sud-Ouest launches for its part " the call of the beach ", same story for Le Courrier Picard, "a beach of freedom opens " and for the Independent which title:" The return to the beach ", while La Dépêche du midi speaks in one of another reappearance, that of "yellow vests", with new calls to demonstrate this Saturday, in Toulouse in particular. Demonstration prohibited by the prefecture, of course.

A first weekend post-deconfinement, after a first week of hard work at school.

How are you kids? questions Liberation , a week after going back to school for almost a million and a half of them. They who on Monday, the day of the deconfinement, split a masked crowd back on the pavement that had not been walked on for two months. " How will our children remember these two months" wonders the daily? In his editorial called "optimism" Liberation replies: "No one can say. But the optimism that the youngest seem to oppose to the anxieties of their elders will be, without a doubt, the best ingredient of the "next world " to invent. The one that will remain, after us, theirs ”. Then follows, in the article, the story of a week of back to school, quite particular. A Parisian teacher tells how she had masks decorated by conscious students: hand washing, no problem, they know she confides. Another, teacher of CP in REP + in the suburbs of Lyon says: “  None complained […], I even have one who said to me“ the corona is really too cool because we have two recreated when he's there ”. These words, illustrated by the newspaper with drawings made by the children this week: desolate landscape of crossed classrooms where there is a great void but still colors, smiles on these stickmen with legs too long.Janna 10 years oldregrets, she in the columns of Liberation , not having been able to hug her friends and not being able to play cat.Happiness with barrier gestures is not what it used to be.

Nuance, all the same.

"Deconfinés but skeptics" headlines La Voix du Nord. According to a poll published by the daily, only 6% of Northerners say they are resolutely optimistic about the success of deconfinement. " French optimists but vigilant " writes Le Figaro. The weather… the reopening of spaces… The daily also underlines that this week, few French people have resumed the same life as before. According to a poll commissioned by the newspaper, two thirds of French people admit that they have not left their homes more often or for longer and have not seen their family and friends again. And then we were talking about school a moment ago: Le Figaro recalls that 14% of primary schools in France have kept doors closed. Sylvie worries in the pages of the newspaper: " I can't sleep anymore, I don't have a daycare solution ... I'm afraid that my employer will lose patience and fire me  ".

Another headline expression: mea culpa

It can be read in Le Parisien-Today in France or in the newspaper Le Monde , among others. "We made a mistake" confessed Emmanuel Macron yesterday to the nursing staff of the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris. Faced with angry doctors and officials of the Assistance Publiques Hôpitaux de Paris, exhausted by weeks of chaos, the French president acknowledged that the reform of the health system announced 2 years ago had gone wrong, it was not enough sense in his words. Followed by a statement that the wrung out sector was no longer waiting: "yes, we are going to invest". According to Le Parisien , while today, Emmanuel Macron launches the year of commemorations dedicated to General de Gaulle, the French president is thinking of creating a memorial to the victims of Covid-19. An idea swept by this source in the columns of everyday life: "there is nothing worse than making memories on emotion, especially when history is still being written". We were talking about hope a little while ago and if we were only at the start of a new chapter: " let's stay lucid " writes Le Figaro in his editorial, "the times ahead look terrible  " your tone is restored.

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