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FigaroVox week - France tired

2020-07-03T23:49:25.887Z


While the arrival of Jean Castex in Matignon and the reshuffle are supposed to give new impetus to the quinquennium, the record abstention from the second round of the municipal elections suggests a society exhausted. Find each Saturday the selection of FigaroVox: deciphering, points of view and controversies.


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"A nation tired of long debates willingly agrees to be duped, provided that it is rested" : Tocqueville's sentence in The Old Regime and the Revolution is not so much a prophecy as a warning . Tired, the French are undoubtedly so, at the end of a long crisis which put their morale to the test and which raised legitimate questions on the functioning of an administration of which they could note the slowness and improvidence.

The challenges facing the country are immense. However, at the time of rolling up the sleeves, how to understand the abyss that separates the concerns of the majority of the social body, from those of small islets of the vast "French archipelago" for which the priority is to get lost in debates picrocholins, undermined by ideological biases which automatically make any citizen conversation obsolete?

Thus for example memory conflicts, which do not stop shaking the media life of these last weeks. This

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Source: lefigaro

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