Paris Is Not France
(Bernard Lecomte)
This book tells the initiatory story of Bernard Lecomte. He who, after twenty-five years of Parisian life, decides to leave the French capital to move to the provinces. Since then, this former Parisian who prefers pure air to the corridors of the metro, good food to bad cafés, excursions on horseback to traffic jams, moved to Burgundy, where he observes French society far from the big city. And there, is the shock! Elected deputy mayor of his small village in the Puisaye, he discovers political life, that which makes the reality of the republic and that the media never describes. Named communications director of his region, he discovers also the Administration, the real one, not that which one is pleased to mock during Parisian dinners. From this experience, Bernard makes several rather preoccupying conclusions: He notes that the democracy incarnated by the elected officials and the electors from ?the bottom? is fragile, even threatened. Fossilised institutions, weakness of the local press, impossible decentralisation? it is a worrying report. From all that, Bernard gives us a negative enough image of a government that wants to close to the French, but since 1789 until our days, still hasn?t understood the preoccupations of the population that finds itself in the impossibility of resolving the problems. A book that reminds us that the beautiful saying concerning our country, and very used by foreigners ? Paris is France ? is far from being true! When will there be a government in France capable of working for all the French, and not only for the Parisians?
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