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2023 November

De Gaulle on the Market

« The market, Peyrefitte, is good.

It forces people to stretch themselves, it gives a bonus to the best, it encourages you to surpass others and to surpass yourself.

But, at the same time, it creates injustices, it establishes monopolies, it favours cheaters.

So don’t be blind to the market. You should not imagine that it will solve every problem on its own.

The market is not above the nation and the state. It is the nation, it is the state which must oversee the market. »

— DE GAULLE
[quoted by Alain Peyrefitte in C’était de Gaulle, Éditions Fayard, 1994, p. 523]
November 16, 2023 3:15 pm | Link | No Comments »

Crisis Averted at Chartres

The rather garish and invasive plans to renovate the parvis of Chartres cathedral, turn it upside down, and install a museum underneath — previously reported on here in 2019 — have been radically revised in an infinitely less offensive direction.

The City of Chartres has released the final approved designs which show the esplanade of the cathedral renovated but left largely in place.

Instead of the original plan up reversing the grade of the parvis upwards away from the cathedral, the entire museum will be kept underground and out of sight. (more…)

November 15, 2023 12:10 pm | Link | No Comments »

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