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kazen44 on April 11, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: French lawmakers approve a ban on short domestic f...

also, France has been Paris centric since well, forever? the French bureaucracy and political system is very centralised and has been since the French revolution. this directly ties into the idea of the state as an institution in French culture in a lot of subtle ways aswell.

alacombe on April 11, 2021 [–]

> ... and has been since the French revolution

Even before.

> ... his directly ties into the idea of the state as an institution in French culture in a lot of subtle ways aswell.

Especially in the parisian elites disdain toward pretty much anybody else in the country.

ps: exiled french/parisian speaking.

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