I was wonder-struck by the importance people in Paris attach to the week-ends. This week,it is the Bastille Day (July 14) and falls on a Monday. So it is a long week-end. Any one I saw in the office on Friday gleefully wishes me a happy week end. I need not know them. The melas of Indian villages are repeated here on week ends. I stay just opposite of Stade de France. And I see for the past 3 Saturdays how people gather here for the week end event. It was a Rugby final, one week, a rock concert, the next and a football match yesterday when the France 98 team which won the World Cup played with another team. Zidane et all were present. It was nostalgic for the French. Tickets were selling in Black.People came in real good headgears and faces painted with the French Nationak Flag. Most of them were wearing the Zidanne T-shirts. I enjoyed the ambience.