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Pierre Vermeren: "Mayors have a heavy responsibility in making France uglier"

2020-03-09T19:19:24.284Z


TRIBUNE - Normalien, agrégé and doctor in history, the academic * describes with rare precision the seven plagues which attack the landscapes and the architectural heritage of our country.


For a year and a half, everything has been written about the crisis of "yellow vests", the methodical ugliness of France and the denaturation of its territory. Everything has been demonstrated on the ecological crisis and its disastrous consequences, both in terms of sustainable pollution and destruction of nature, species and natural spaces, France being at the forefront in Europe. Everything has been exposed (by Stéphane Bern, Franck Ferrand and Alexandre Gady, in particular) on the calamitous state of our architectural and urban heritage, as well as on the accelerated deterioration of the small rural heritage at the expense of the municipalities and poor owners.

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However, despite these precise and documented analyzes, in the absence of national leaders sensitive to the beauty and transmission of inherited cultures - artisanal, architectural or landscape - no substantial change has occurred to date. The territory continues to be nibbled by speculative predation, while the heritages

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Source: lefigaro

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