TOI correspondant from Washington: Welcome to Planet Barbecue, where the latest transatlantic spat between the US and Europe comes via Paris – with heat – courtesy the city’s deputy mayor Audrey Pulvar, who is blaming Americans, and their enthusiastic love affair with air conditioning, for helping cook France.

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