Le Crépuscule de la France d’en Haut (The Twilight of the French Elite)

2016 | History & Politics

A Paris-based geographer, Guilluy has made his name tracing a similar story of popular disillusionment with politics in France. He contrasts the prosperity and dynamism to be found in major cities such as Paris and Bordeaux with the grim realities of “peripheral” France, where a majority of the population spend their lives. While globalisation has benefited the educated urban middle classes, it has also created generations of losers in the small towns and villages of La France profonde. Although the former backed Emmanuel Macron in the recent general election, many of the latter headed for the far right and the far left.

Christophe Guilly (Author)