I reported last week on a public beach in France, used by textiles and naturists, being closed to accommodate the security of the Saudi royal family.

It now transpires there has been a public demonstration, by naturist swimmers, at the beach’s closure.

I suggested, last week, that the French approach to ‘egalite, fraternite and liberte’ might be waning. I was wrong and I retract that statement. The spirit of the French Revolution is alive and well. It seems that it’s more a case of liberte, egalite, fraternite et nudite! Vive la France!

Ella