Curfew.
The word immediately made the good spirits shudder.
He would take us back to the dark hours of the Occupation!
A philosopher, who says he is
"attentive to the meaning and memory of words"
, even claims that the term "curfew" risks causing a
"pile-up"
in people's minds.
It would be
"unhealthy"
to use it.
As with separatism, France likes these semantic debates which are, unfortunately, most often irrelevant.
In reality, the legal basis of our current curfew does not date back to the Occupation, but to a law of 1955, adopted by the radical-socialist majority.
And, since the beginning of the 2000s, the curfew has been used on several occasions, either following urban riots, or in a much more modest setting: several town halls were able to take - in a general quasi-indifference - numerous “anti-minor” curfew orders.
In short, in France, this measure has nothing foreign to our "republican tradition".
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The curfew in France, a long history since the Middle Ages
If the name itself is medieval, this question
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