Book of grievances, the dull noise of France

Faced with the scale of this social crisis, rural mayors have decided to make grievance books available to their constituents. More than 200,000 contributions were written, in nearly 20,000 grievance books, distributed across 17,000 town halls.

Overwhelmed by this social anger, President Emmanuel Macron announced on December 12, 2018, the holding of a Great National Debate, on the basis of these grievances. He had promised to return to the French but his intervention, expected on April 15, 2019, was finally canceled because Notre Dame de Paris was burning.

Since then, almost nothing. Private organizations produced a summary of the Great Debate for the government, but the lists of grievances were put aside, archived, as if forgotten. To the great dismay of the citizens who participated in their writing, the elected officials who initiated them or the researchers who are fighting for them to be published. Even the new Prime Minister, Michel Barnier, has indicated that he wants to get back into the largest consultation of free expression organized in France.

Report from: Claire Servajean

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