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C. Hatty · 07/24/2026

Summer Reading at the Beach: France Televisions Asks About Holiday Books

Paris - 24 July 2026: A book on the beach is more than an object between sunscreen and a water bottle. It is a small promise of a break, of hours without a schedule and perhaps also of that rare form of concentration that so easily frays in everyday life. France Televisions is now dedicating the second episode of its summer series "A Summer with a Book" to this ritual.The report heads to the coast and asks a simple, but not insignificant, question: Which books do French people take with ...

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