For one fleeting instant, an expression of intense exasperation
flickered across the face of the immaculately groomed sales assistant in
a chic Parisian department store as the Chinese tourists jostled and
gestured at watches costing several thousand euros apiece.
Then she bit her lip and smiled. The Chinese visitors counting out wads of euros and engaged in what the Paris
authorities call "fervent shopping" neither noticed nor seemed to care.
They had cash, lots of it, burning holes in their pockets and, with
visits to the Louvre and Versailles beckoning, not much time to spend it
on the luxury goods and logos they were seeking.
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