Are We Seeing the Demise of the Little French Kiss?

COVID is killing a part of French culture

Photo by Ashkan Forouzani on Unsplash

One of the things that people of Anglo-Saxon descent are quickly confronted by in France is what is known locally as the bisou. This is the traditional greeting in which people kiss one another on both cheeks. This behaviour is by no means restricted to men kissing women and vice versa. If I know a man well…