On Saturday, March 14, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe ordered all non-essential French businesses to close, effective to at midnight that day, to aid in social distancing. Restaurants, cafés, movie theatres, bars and clubs are all effected. Markets and food shops, pharmacies, gas stations, banks, newspaper and tobacco stores will remain open, Philippe said. Places of worships will remain open, but religious ceremonies and gatherings will be postponed.Large gatherings of over 100 people have been banned (Editor's note: It was originally gatherings of over 1,000 but it has been changed to 100 as of March 12). Because of this, tourist attractions across the country including the Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, the Eiffel Tower, and the Château de Versailles have closed. During the ban of gatherings over 1,000, museums had remained open with strict crowd controls, but with a maximum of 100, they cannot remain open.The limit on crowd sizes has resulted in many events being postponed or cancelled. The Paris Marathon, scheduled for April 5, has been postponed. Around 60,000 people were expected to run the race, which has been postponed to October 18. The France-Ireland match of the Six Nations rugby tournament, scheduled for March 16, has been moved to a date that has yet to be announced. AccorHotels Arena in Paris decided to just cancel all scheduled shows until the end of May. The Paris Book Fair (salon Livre Paris), scheduled for March 20 to 23, was also cancelled. The St. Patrick's Day parade has been cancelled as well.The March for the Climate on March 14 was cancelled. A protest on the Champs-Elysées by gilets jaunes on March 14, however, occurred, defying the ban on gatherings of over 100 people.After initially deciding to play to empty arenas, France's top soccer leagues, Ligue 1 and 2, have suspended play. The Champions League, which has several French teams in it, also postponed all games.Disneyland Paris has closed, after initially staying open despite the ban on gatherings of more than 1,000 people (though as of March 12, 100 people) and having multiple people at the park test positive for COVID-19.https://twitter.com/MuseeLouvre/status/1234143580698161152