People in the French capital are hurt and baffled by the UK’s attitude to France as a no-deal Brexit looms
At the Châtelet branch of Boulinier, a Paris bookshop that has stocked English language books since 1845, shoppers were yesterday reflecting on a spate of British newspaper headlines threatening to send Royal Navy gunboats to board invading French trawlers in the event of a failure to agree a trade deal.
Anglophiles like Didier Aubert, 72, a retired civil servant, said the threats were “ridiculous”.
