So what do Amazon’s logistics platforms, Stéphane Plaza’s broadcasts, kebab restaurants, neo-rural villages in the Drôme, the world of coaches and roundabout bakeries have in common? Nothing, of course, except that each of these economic, cultural and social realities occupies the daily life or nourishes the imagination of a segment of contemporary France. However, no atlas allows us to find our way in this new France where everyone is unaware of what the other is doing. The gap between the reality of the country and the representations that we have inherited is therefore abysmal, and, almost half a century after the completion of the Thirty Glorious Years, we continue to speak of France as if it had just come from get out. However, since the mid-1980s, our society has undergone a profound transformation, fully entering the world of services, mobility, consumption, image and leisure. It is daily life in this new and self-ignored France that this book intends to give an account of at the level of men and territories.

Jérôme Fourquet, author of L’Archipel français (Seuil, 2019), is a political analyst, expert in electoral geography, director of the Opinion department at the IFOP.

Jean-Laurent Cassely is a journalist (Slate.fr, L’Express) and essayist, specialist in lifestyles and territorial issues.

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France before our eyes. Economy, landscapes, new lifestyles

Jérôme Fourquet and Jean-Laurent Cassely

ISBN-13 ‏: ‎ 978-2021481563