Lisnard-Macron controversy: who is telling the truth, the mayors or the state?

On September 22, 1900, anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic, in 1792, a gigantic banquet brought together 22,000 mayors in Paris in the Tuileries Garden at the invitation of the then President of the Republic, Émile Loubet, and the President of the Council, Waldeck-Rousseau, on the occasion of the Universal Exhibition. This shows the extent to which the State maintains special relations with mayors in France. Neither the regions, which are very young on the scale of history, nor even the venerable departments can compete with the municipalities in terms of prestige.

, judged Gambetta in his speech of Belleville in 1875. Between the mayors and the State, the differences never failed, but none of the protagonists forgot that their destiny was linked.

So one could not help but feel sad when observing, during the closing speeches of the congress

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