Through David Leduc
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Hosting the headquarters of a political party is well worth a presence in the columns of a prestigious newspaper! American readers of the New-York Times were able to place the city ofIvry-sur-Seine on a map with a reportage of the prestigious journal dedicated to the municipality, which has hosted since October 2018 the headquarters of the Socialist Party (PS). As a reminder, before settling in the Val de Marne, the PS had its historic headquarters in rue Solférino, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris.
What is worth to the journalist of New-York Times this acid attack:
« [Déménager à Ivry-sur-Seine] Maybe it was like going from the Upper East Side in Manhattan to Queens, Staten Island or even New Jersey ”.
And to evoke the bygone days of proximity to “the best schools in the country, the Musée d’Orsay, the Louvre, the National Assembly and the Elysée Palace, on the other side of the Seine”.
“A changing suburb”
So what does the new Socialist house look like to Americans? Ivry is described as a “working class town”, subject to gentrification and which remains one of the “bastions of the French Communist Party”.
After having returned at length to the political setbacks of the party, swallowed up by the emergence of the party ofEmmanuel Macron, The Republic on the Move, the New-York Times formula: “In Ivry-sur-Seine, the party seems to be looking for its place in a rapidly changing suburb”. The American journalist cites as an example the recent destruction of the city of Gagarin, symbol of the working-class city.
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