In
"France under our eyes"
, Jérôme Fourquet and Jean-Laurent Cassely put into perspective the changes that our country has undergone since the mid-1980s. From this great metamorphosis was born what they called "the France of 'after". For “Le Figaro”, in partnership with the Jean Jaurès Foundation, Jérôme Fourquet continues this work through six monographs which illustrate the electoral upheavals that result from it. Second part: the dislocation of the Mitterrandian Nièvre.
François Mitterrand had patiently built an electoral stronghold in the rural and landlocked department of Nièvre.
This establishment took place over half a century.
The young Mitterrand was elected there for the first time in 1949. Defeated then re-elected in the various ballots of the Fourth Republic, he stabilized his parliamentary establishment from 1962, date from which he sat continuously as deputy of this territory until 1981. Like Jacques Chirac in his Corrézien stronghold,
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