"The cancellation of the bac 2020 tests pushes back the horizon for a way out of the crisis"

Jérôme Fourquet is the author of “The French Archipelago. Birth of a multiple and divided nation ”(Threshold), Political Book Prize 2019.

LE FIGARO.- Confined France seems at first sight to all its inhabitants in a situation of relative equality. However, does the "French archipelago" remain divided?

Jérôme FOURQUET. - Admittedly, this collective test creates a common experience and can bring citizens together, but it also reveals the pre-existing fractures of the French archipelago. We see the issue of the secession of the elites (with city dwellers exiling in the countryside) and that of France in the suburbs where it was sometimes difficult to implement confinement due to the fear of joining the riot to the epidemic. The bloody attack in Romans-sur-Isère perpetrated by a Sudanese refugee also reminds us of the persistence in full confinement of the terrorist threat and radicalization amid a migratory surge.

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