Officials in France or any country can at anytime ask a person to demonstrate that they have health insurance and the financial means to visit the country, especially in these trying times. Christina has provided an excellent link that provides the information for countries within the schengen zone.
Officials usually focus on younger people who maybe more likely to work. However, a few documents downloaded on a mobile phone or IPad makes life easier and there are security precautions to be considered if doing this.
if your country of citizenship does not have a bilateral health care agreement with France, the health insurance is very important. Sadly Australia doesn’t have a bilateral health agreement with France but does have with 32 other countries.

Unfortunately, Cheska, I do not think we will have to worry about documents for a while. I cannot see us getting back to France for some time. We had been thinking September 2022, but that hope seems to be fading. Hopefully 2023.

rhon I was hoping for May 2022 for our 45th wediing anniversary. It is so depressing. Hope you are well.

At the moment, 2022 is looking pretty good for a lot of countries.

Cheska

that's how I see it. I've travelled extensively and never once attempted to circumvent visa or immigration rules. As far as I'm aware a national passport doesn't give anyone the right of entry to any particular country that their home country has a agreement with. I may be wrong but any immigration officer in the world can refuse entry on any reasonable grounds. You wind up the wrong officer, on the wrong day and you will be coming home early.

BritishCaicos. You are correct and as a former immigration officer I would often tell younger people arriving in Europe with only a few thousand dollars for a three month holiday, that it might be difficult if you are stopped at the border. Of course some countries are more strict than others, and anecdotal evidence suggested that Switzerland and Germany often checked these documents.

Sadly, this is simply making me want to stay home

Why

I agree , variants and low world vaccination rates means we have a long way to go. Parts of Africa have a very young population but COVID could be devastating with less developed health systems.

Just seems like a heck of a lot of work to simply spend a week being a tourist. Health records, financial documents (lol I guess if you have bad credit don't bother coming) 10 grade report card, Hotel confirmation.
lol what's next? Dispensation from the Pope?

France is a secular country. The pope was not allowed to visit France from 1805 until 1980.

Love this.

alicewest1075 that’s ok we can call into Rome first 🤣Kerouac thanks as always as I didn’t know this and will now have to research the why.

huh, doesn't seem that bad to me, except for the recent COVID test stuff involves planning. Why is it so burdensome to provide a copy of a hotel confirmation? Who doesn't have that on them to begin with when you travel? Ok, I guess if you are the kind of person who doesn't even make hotel reservations and arrives at CDG thinking you'll wing it, ok, But not most people. The financial documents aren't particularly difficult either, I could easily take a copy of the front page of my latest bank statement, and now that I think of it, your credit card bill does show your limit on it, maybe a copy of the front page of that. I also know a lot of countries have these requirements anyway, just that they are rarely enforced unless you seem suspicious for some reason. I know Czechia has had a requirement for quite a while that you would have to prove you had health insurance or something, but few people are actually required to show proof of it. But I always have such proof on me, actually, a copy of my travel insurance policy.

This is nothing compared to some countries all the time, like Russia and China, where you need to do a lot just for a regular tourist visa.

Email from Paris Opera today indicating it will start requiring a valid health pass to attend events as of mid-June. The pass certifies complete vaccination or negative test results or Covid recovery among other things.I suppose this signifies progress in a way.

It has been said that health passes will be required for all spectacles and events with more than a thousand people. There are really not all that many which concern most tourists.

We are not talking just about tourists in this particular case.