French authors offer to pay bookshops' Covid lockdown fines
by Kim Willsher in Paris from on (#5AE7T)
Bestselling writer says no state has moral right to close bookshops
A group of French authors has promised to pay fines imposed on the country's bookshops that remain open in defiance of coronavirus lockdown rules.
The pledge was made by the bestselling writer Alexandre Jardin, who said authors were getting together to support booksellers during the crisis.
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