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Jérôme Batout: "The province takes its revenge on Paris"

2022-09-23T14:09:45.691Z


INTERVIEW - For the philosopher, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine have shown the importance of the territories for the sovereignty of the country and the way of life of its citizens.


It is time for the word “province” to reenter common language.

Considered obsolete, even pejorative, it has been discarded in favor of the terms “territories” and “periphery”.

After the dark moments of deindustrialization and social breakdown linked to the globalization movement, the province has been able to assert its assets, notes Jérôme Batout, philosopher and economist.

Based on facts but also on literature and sensibilities, he published

La Revanche de la province,

published by Gallimard.

An essay that invites to a real French reconciliation.

LE FIGARO.

- You deliberately use the word “province”, which is somewhat neglected.

Why?

Jerome Batout.

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I believe that it is now justified to use again the old and superb word of “province”.

The feeling of inferiority that this word conveyed yesterday is giving way to a new pride, and that's fine.

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Source: lefigaro

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