French union leader Marcelle Rohr on French department store hours

Even if the stores closed at midnight, there would still always be people coming in to buy. So there's a moment when you just have to say stop. The customers just have to be organized.

     --Union delegate Marcelle Rohr, who works at the Paris department store Printemps, quoted in an article on the possible extension of department store hours to 8 p.m., in Le Parisien, 31 March 2008

Même si on fermait à minuit, il y aurait toujours des gens pour venir faire des achats. Alors il arrive un moment où il faut s'arrêter. Les clients n'ont qu'à s'organiser.