{"id":1406,"date":"2006-11-24T20:30:27","date_gmt":"2006-11-24T20:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedonia.fr\/blogWP\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2006-11-24T20:30:27","modified_gmt":"2006-11-24T20:30:27","slug":"le-grand-travers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedonia.fr\/blogWP\/?p=1406","title":{"rendered":"Le grand travers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actualit\u00e9 oblige, cette semaine la chronique politique est consacr\u00e9e au Languedoc-Roussillon. La ville de Montpellier depuis 1973, depuis 2004 la r\u00e9gion (ainsi que la communaut\u00e9 d’agglom\u00e9ration de sa capitale) est domin\u00e9e par la d\u00e9magogie d’un ex-mao dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 d’H.E.C. (de Paris), Georges Fr\u00eache, l’\u00abempereur de Septimanie\u00bb (red\u00e9nomination de la r\u00e9gion un temps propos\u00e9e par lui, laquelle a irrit\u00e9 entre autres les Catalans qui tiennent, semble-t-il, \u00e0 la mention \u00abRoussillon\u00bb). Ses remarques r\u00e9centes sur \u00ables Noirs en \u00e9quipe de France\u00bb ne sont que la derni\u00e8re de ses citations<\/a> louches, destin\u00e9es \u00e0 flatter (suppos\u00e9ment) l’\u00e9lectorat pied-noir et, connexement, l’\u00e9lectorat FN, nombreux dans la r\u00e9gion. <\/p>\n

La n\u00e9m\u00e9sis de Fr\u00eache dans la r\u00e9gion, qui a (lui aussi) copin\u00e9 avec le FN local du \u00abf\u00eal\u00e9, pas l’autre\u00bb Jean-Claude Martinez, est le t\u00e9nor de la Loz\u00e8re Jacques Blanc, figure des r\u00e9publicains-ind\u00e9pendants et aujourd’hui de l’UMP. Comme quoi \u00e7a vasouille grave dans la zone. La Loz\u00e8re se rattache, d’ailleurs, plus, dans son comportement politique, au Cantal et \u00e0 l’Aveyron, grands espaces ruraux, montagneux et conservateurs qui ont d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9voqu\u00e9s.<\/p>\n

Terre de viticulture et, partant, de manoeuvres agricoles, le Languedoc a en effet, quant \u00e0 lui, longtemps \u00e9t\u00e9 le coeur du \u00abMidi rouge\u00bb, la patrie du carbonaro fran\u00e7ais Armand Barb\u00e8s, et alla jusqu’\u00e0 la r\u00e9volte ouverte en 1907 contre l’oligarchie royaliste locale et les conditions de travail; Clemenceau, l\u00e0 aussi, fit donner la troupe. L’activisme viticole demeure puissant dans le coin. La r\u00e9gion fut, en bonne logique, un bastion du PCF mais, comme l’illustre le double \u00e9chec en parachutage de Gayssot en 2001-2002 \u00e0 B\u00e9ziers, et la perte de la derni\u00e8re mairie communiste d’une ville de plus de 100 000 habitants avec N\u00eemes en 2001, le vote r\u00e9gional est tr\u00e8s conforme \u00e0 celui du pays dans son ensemble, et laisse donc peu de place au Parti.
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\nGiven the news, this week’s political chronicle is about Languedoc-Roussillon. The demagoguery of former Maoist, H.E.C. (Paris) graduate Georges Fr\u00eache has dominated the city of Montpellier since 1973, and the region since 2004. He’s also well known as the \u00ab\u00a0emperor of Septimania\u00a0\u00bb, from the name with which he tried once to rechristen the region, to the ire, among others, of Catalans (apparently sensitive to the use of \u00ab\u00a0Roussillon\u00a0\u00bb). Recent remarks about \u00ab\u00a0black people in the French soccer team\u00a0\u00bb are only his last stinky quotes<\/a>, aimed at (allegedly) flattering the North Africa rapatriates (\u00ab\u00a0Black-Foots\u00a0\u00bb), and, in turn, the (numerous) local FN voters.<\/p>\n

Fr\u00eache arch-rival in the region, another chum of \u00ab\u00a0the madman, not the other\u00a0\u00bb Jean-Claude Martinez’s regional FN, is Jacques Blanc, the big gun from Loz\u00e8re, a former Republicain-Ind\u00e9pendant and today a UMP guy. One could say, the region is stinkragous. By the way, as far as its political behaviour is concerned, Loz\u00e8re is rather a part of the large rural, mountainous, conservative spaces also including Aveyron and Cantal (already studied before).<\/p>\n

A wine country, therefore a farmworkers’ country, Languedoc has, for one, indeed long been the heart of \u00ab\u00a0Red South\u00a0\u00bb, home to French Carbonaro Armand Barb\u00e8s. It even rose up in 1907 against the Royalist oligarchy and working conditions; there, as elsewhere, Clemenceau sent in the army. Winegrowers’ activism remains strong around. The region was, quite logically, a stronghold of the Communist Party. Yet, as shown by the double failure of Gayssot parachuting in in B\u00e9ziers in 2001 and 2002, as well as the loss of the last above-100,000-inhabitant Communist city, N\u00eemes, the regional vote is similar to France’s; therefore, it leaves little space to PCF. <\/p>\n

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Actualit\u00e9 oblige, cette semaine la chronique politique est consacr\u00e9e au Languedoc-Roussillon. La ville de Montpellier depuis 1973, depuis 2004 la r\u00e9gion (ainsi que la communaut\u00e9 d’agglom\u00e9ration de sa capitale) est domin\u00e9e par la d\u00e9magogie d’un ex-mao dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 d’H.E.C. (de Paris), Georges Fr\u00eache, l’\u00abempereur de Septimanie\u00bb (red\u00e9nomination de la r\u00e9gion un temps propos\u00e9e par lui, laquelle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedonia.fr\/blogWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedonia.fr\/blogWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedonia.fr\/blogWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedonia.fr\/blogWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedonia.fr\/blogWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedonia.fr\/blogWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedonia.fr\/blogWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedonia.fr\/blogWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedonia.fr\/blogWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}