People in France will be able to enjoy indoor dining and staying out until 11pm for the first time in months under a new relaxation of Covid rules, as cases fall and vaccinations rise.
In a key new phase of the programme relaxing the lockdown, diners will be able to go inside cafes and restaurants, terrace consumption having already resumed on 19 May.
The overnight curfew will now start later - at 11pm instead of 9pm - before being dropped entirely if all goes to plan on June 30.
And restrictions at cultural venues, reopened on May 19, are also being eased as a sense of normality returns to France with glorious early summer weather. "A new step will be taken" on Wednesday, President Emmanuel Macron wrote on Twitter. "Life will resume across