The economy is bad everywhere. Things are so bad in France that Parisians have been requested to stop being impatient with tourists and start smiling in the hopes that some of the tourists that left or never came in the first place will come back. There is no word from the Minister of Culture, responsible for maintaining the French identity free from foreign impurities,  but I would think that this was a more serious threat than the word ‘hamburger’.  Certainly Paris’ most visited resident, the Mona Lisa, although Italian, has the French non-smile down pat for the 6 million visitors she greets each year. Napoleon didn’t exactly have a jovial reputation either. And Humphrey Bogart wasn’t smiling when he delivered the line ‘we’ll always have Paris.’  Paris is supposed to be about drama: starving in garrets for your art or escaping persecution elsewhere for your art, mad (not friendly) affairs of the heart and shopping.  All of which is serious business!