On September 12, in Rouen, far from the main avenues of Paris, Anne Hidalgo said she was ready for a "
democratic adventure
".
Square well smoothed, tone very civilized, the current mayor of Paris is embarking on an epic towards the Elysee she had dreamed of for a long time.
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She gave herself a mission: "to
change life, to make it easier, more beautiful
".
Its enemy is the car and pollution.
“
One of the challenges of this term of office
,” wrote the city councilor at the start of 2019, “
is to give back to Parisians their squares, their parks, their streets, their gardens, their squares.
"It is no longer liberated Paris but"
Paris breathes
", a program which since 2018 has gradually driven cars from"
secure public space
".
Make way for “
green spaces
”, “
citizen highways
” and “
peaceful and multi-use places
”.
Convoluted peripheries, creations of words: welcome to the alleys of the Hidalgo language.
To read also "Ecofeminism", "to make society", "chosen diversity": immersed in the newspeak of the ecologists
"
Topager
", "
neo-farmer
": neologisms for a new, happier world
Anne Hidalgo is not the first to do it, to create a new world, nothing like
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