Oz Eigo » France http://www.ozeigo.com English Study, Travel & World Culture Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:20:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= In Paris, the customer is not always right http://www.ozeigo.com/2010/03/11/in-paris-the-customer-is-not-always-right/ http://www.ozeigo.com/2010/03/11/in-paris-the-customer-is-not-always-right/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:15:03 +0000 Aidan http://www.ozeigo.com/?p=597

The idea of service is taken very seriously in France where any feeling of subservience is strongly resisted, as Emma Jane Kirby discovered.

Paris is in a bad mood.

The sullen, steel-grey sky seems to be permanently snivelling sleet.

The Seine, swollen against its banks, pushes and squeezes its way through the city like an irascible woman in too-tight shoes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8500246.stm

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The idea of service is taken very seriously in France where any feeling of subservience is strongly resisted, as Emma Jane Kirby discovered.

Paris is in a bad mood.

The sullen, steel-grey sky seems to be permanently snivelling sleet.

The Seine, swollen against its banks, pushes and squeezes its way through the city like an irascible woman in too-tight shoes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8500246.stm

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