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The town of Pantin renamed “Pantine”: why is it so tense?

2023-01-04T18:41:18.894Z


The decision of the mayor (PS) to add an "e" to the name of his city of Seine-Saint-Denis, to raise awareness of gender inequalities, has aroused


In his novel, "La Disparition", Georges Perec had chosen not to use the letter "e" once on nearly 300 pages.

Pantin, on the contrary, invites her into his universe and, since then, we only hear her.

The controversy has indeed gone far beyond the municipal borders of this commune of Seine-Saint-Denis, symbolically renamed for a year, “Pantine”.

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Source: leparis

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