Good Riddance: France’s Parasitic Mayors, Feeling the Pinch, Lead a Quiet Rebellion and Quit

AINT-SEINE-SUR-VINGEANNE, France — As mayor of this postage-stamp village deep in Burgundy, France, Louis Gentilhomme presided over a small but seemingly idyllic patch. The loudest noise on a recent day was the autumn breeze whistling in the trees. There were a few streets of stone houses, a 13th-century church, one baker and not much else.

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So it may come as a surprise that late last year, Mr. Gentilhomme wrote a letter to President Emmanuel Macron telling him that the stress was too much and that he was quitting. He could not stand watching his village of 400 wither anymore.
“After 30 years, I’ve had enough,” wrote Mr. Gentilhomme, a vigorous 77-year-old former French Navy SEAL diver. “The compromises, the unkept promises and the state’s withdrawal have used me up, morally and physically.’’
His letter speaks to a broader anxiety in France’s heartland. This year, like him, more than 150 of the country’s mayors, mostly rural, have quit. The number of mayors quitting their posts may be at an all-time high, up anywhere from 32 percent to 50 percent over the previous electoral cycle, according to the French news media.

The resignations provide an echo of the larger clash taking place in France today between Mr. Macron’s drive to shake up the country’s sometimes archaic institutions, untouched for centuries, and a way of life that may no longer be sustainable.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/11/world/europe/france-mayors-quit-macron.html

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Good Riddance: France’s Parasitic Mayors, Feeling the Pinch, Lead a Quiet Rebellion and Quit

Good Riddance: France’s Parasitic Mayors, Feeling the Pinch, Lead a Quiet Rebellion and Quit

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