INTERVIEW. “To tell about the territories far from Paris is to repopulate this vague term,

“The capital is experienced, thought of and acts as a center of the world. » In an excellent collective work which combines investigations, stories and testimonies, the reader (re)discovers the France of rural areas and small towns. Texts that are neither exoticizing nor miserabilist, which tell of a reality often distorted from Paris. The objective of Salomé Berlioux and Félix Assouly of the Rura association: “To allow the 40 million French people in the territories to identify themselves, to recognize each other, to come together. »