PARIS—In cafés, in workplaces and practically everywhere in in between, it has always been flawlessly usual in France to greet folks by touching their face with your face.
La bise, as the customary double cheek kiss is regarded, is so deeply entrenched in French lifestyle that it is deployed as casually as a handshake. Even President Emmanuel Macron greets foreign leaders with it, as President Trump identified to his shock in 2018.
When…