Closed? Sure, even the best shops close. And this is a great butcher, so I guess they are entitled.

But...it's going to be closed for a month. A Month! Not for maintenance. Not for illness in the family.

No. It's their summer vacation!

They sell perhaps the best pork I have ever had, so this isn't a casual observation of the difference in work ethic and cultural views of the work/life balance between America and France.

No...this is an existential crisis!

[Below the fold is why it is a catastrophe!]