Cop Au Vin
France is famous for its love of food and wine, and that can manifest in some odd ways. Here's a story we found in Harper's Magazine that might make you laugh... or grimace.
When Police are banned from drinking while on duty (as recently as 2011), they make a plea for an exception to be made, which would allow them to have wine with their lunch. Cop Au Vin Haper's December 2012, pg 20 From an April 18, 2011, letter by Didier Magione, the national secretary of the French unio