CHRONIC. Supporting photographs, a book denounces the disfigurement of the capital and the abandonment of its heritage. A cruel indictment.
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VAlérie Pécresse intends to make the Île-de-France region a showcase for its way of governing. Anne Hidalgo has every interest in doing the opposite, if she does not want to lose her last potential voters in the polls, fewer and fewer, it is true. She must hope that they will not read the book that Didier Rykner, director of The Art Gallerydedicated to the management of the mayor of Paris (The Disappearance of Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 19 euros). It is an indictment that is both lively and very well documented, illustrated by numerous photographs. The urban heritage is deteriorating, the plant heritage is sacrificed, the cultural and architectural heritage is despised. This is the conclusion.
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