“Popular Front… It surprises me a little to hear this expression again.” For Gisèle, this left-wing coalition evokes more the legislative elections of 1936 than those of 2024 (where the “New” Popular Front won 27.98% of the vote this Sunday). In her nursing home in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (Val-de-Marne), the Résidence de l’abbaye, she must delve into the depths of family memory to bring back memories of that time.
“I was born a year after the formation of the Popular Front,” she contextualizes. My mother was a bank employee and my father was a cast iron founder, a very difficult job. When he had his first vacation, it changed his life,” breathes the former teacher of 87 spring, in reference to one of the flagship measures of this totem of the Third Republic: generalized paid leave.
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