Eric Piolle, the EELV mayor of Grenoble, triggered a controversy by proposing to remove religious holidays from the calendar. This proposal betrays a revolutionary ideology that, according to Pierre Bentata, underlies the whole of the Greens' ideology.
Some have not failed to point out the anticlerical character or even the simple negation of French history. Others recalled the naivety of such a process, already applied by the Republican calendar, with the failure that we know. Certainly, there is in this media release a desire to make people talk at little cost, and to recall the anti-Christian position of thereens.