{"id":68102,"date":"2006-10-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/16\/le-secret-francais-des-anglais-ou-lexil-en-france-pour-sauver-son-identite\/"},"modified":"2006-10-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T00:00:00","slug":"le-secret-francais-des-anglais-ou-lexil-en-france-pour-sauver-son-identite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2006\/10\/16\/le-secret-francais-des-anglais-ou-lexil-en-france-pour-sauver-son-identite\/","title":{"rendered":"Le secret fran\u00e7ais des Anglais, ou \u201cl’exil en France\u201d pour sauver son identit\u00e9<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Le secret fran\u00e7ais des Anglais, ou l’exil en France pour sauver son identit\u00e9<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n

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\tVoici un court article paru dans The Independent<\/em> du 9 octobre<\/a>, avec ce titre : \u00ab How times have changed: Britons want to be French.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIl concerne un ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne que nous connaissons tous, en confirme l’ampleur, son caract\u00e8re structurel jusqu’\u00e0 impliquer des avis cat\u00e9goriques et radicaux chez ceux qui en sont les acteurs. Il s’agit de la \u00abBritain’s middle-class love affair with all things Gallic<\/em>\u00bb, marqu\u00e9e non seulement par l’afflux des Britanniques en France mais aussi par cette attitude peu commune des Britanniques de vouloir devenir Fran\u00e7ais (un cinqui\u00e8me des Britanniques).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tPourquoi tant de Britanniques veulent-ils \u00eatre Fran\u00e7ais? On pourrait r\u00e9pondre : la bonne bouffe, le bon vin, la beaut\u00e9 des lieux, l’\u00e9quilibre de la g\u00e9ographie et ainsi de suite. Cela est-il suffisant pour expliquer un ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne si radical et n\u00e9cessairement plus complexe que des explications aussi banales ? (Inutile de vouloir devenir Fran\u00e7ais pour vivre en France.) N’est-il pas plus enrichissant de r\u00e9pondre \u00e9galement : la nation ? C’est-\u00e0-dire, de fa\u00e7on plus \u00e9labor\u00e9e et plus explicative : le besoin de nation, avec toute la diversit\u00e9 qu’implique une telle tendance ?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tPourquoi les Britanniques veulent-ils \u00eatre Fran\u00e7ais? Notre r\u00e9ponse est aussi celle-ci: parce que la France malgr\u00e9<\/strong> nombre de Fran\u00e7ais et surtout malgr\u00e9<\/strong> les \u00e9lites fran\u00e7aises a encore une signification fondamentale et une diversit\u00e9 enrichissante en tant que nation. L’Angleterre, elle, ce mirobolant royaume enchant\u00e9 de Tony Blair<\/em> (de Philippe Auclair, chez Fayard) est en train de perdre les siennes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tFaites un rapport entre la fureur<\/a> du CEM britannique, le g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Dannatt, et la nouvelle de The Independent<\/em>, et essayez de penser \u00e0 autre chose qu’aux fluctuations de l’immobilier en France, ou \u00e0 autre chose en plus<\/strong> des fluctuations de l’immobilier. Essayez l’argument de la transcendance d’une nation encore vivace comme explication compl\u00e9mentaire (chronologiquement secondaire mais substantiellement importante) d’une attraction si forte.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tL’id\u00e9e est bien que ce n’est pas seulement la France en tant que telle, avec toute sa diversit\u00e9, qui attire les Anglais, mais \u00e9galement la France en tant que nation existant encore dans ses moeurs, dans ses structures naturelles, dans sa culture et la fa\u00e7on d’assumer cette culture, dans son ind\u00e9pendance et dans sa souverainet\u00e9 telles que n’a plus l’Angleterre ; l’id\u00e9e n’est pas tant celle d’une naturalisation qui attire les Anglais que celle d’une r\u00e9alisation de soi-m\u00eame dans un cadre propice. L’on peut \u00eatre plus ais\u00e9ment soi-m\u00eame, du point de vue identitaire, dans une nation elle-m\u00eame encore si identifi\u00e9e en tant que telle qu’est la France, que dans son propre pays qui est en train de perdre tous ces caract\u00e8res, \u00e0 l’am\u00e9ricaine. (En un sens et de fa\u00e7on paradoxale, on pourrait avancer qu’on peut \u00eatre plus Anglais en devenant Fran\u00e7ais et en vivant en France. Cette id\u00e9e correspond effectivement au g\u00e9nie universaliste de la France donnant aux autres par sa nature profonde le go\u00fbt et la force de la souverainet\u00e9 et de l’identit\u00e9 sans naturellement les priver de leur propre identit\u00e9, au contraire en la renfor\u00e7ant.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCe serait alors une forme postmoderne de l’exil volontaire pour sauver sa propre identit\u00e9, ou l’exil en France pour se sauver du monstre d\u00e9structurant qui d\u00e9vore le monde et lui r\u00e9sister. C’est l’hypoth\u00e8se que nous offrons pour comprendre toutes les significations de ce ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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How times have changed: Britons want to be French<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

\tBy Cahal Milmo, The Independent, 9 October 2006<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tA famous wit once observed there were two reasons for the British to dislike the French. Firstly, they are too logical and secondly they own France – \u00a0\u00bba country which we have always judged to be much too good for them\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tHow times have changed. Now it seems that Britain’s middle-class love affair with all things Gallic has reached the point where a fifth of Britons now actually want to be French.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tA study of attitudes towards our closest neighbour has found that Britons would prefer to work in France or retire to France above any other country, including their own.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tThe ICM survey found that if given a choice of nationality, just over half of Britons under 50 would retain their British passport. But 22 per cent would rather ditch their British status altogether and opt to become French.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tThe findings come amid an upsurge of Francophilia in Britain. Britons now own \u00a34.6bn of property in France and have bought some 51,000 homes across the Channel since 2000.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tThe last French census in 2004 recorded a 50 per cent increase over five years in the number of Britons who live permanently in France to 100,000. About 500,000 Britons spend more than six weeks in France every year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tExperts say that the allure of France as a wine-quaffing haven with improved climate, cheaper housing and a higher standard of living has not been dented by the country’s stubbornly high unemployment or evidence of social schism following last year’s rioting in major cities.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tNick Wall, editor of France magazine, said: \u00a0\u00bbIssues such as the riots are seen as totally separate. I think the British now have a deeper understanding of France and the French.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00a0\u00bbPeople like the footballer Thierry Henry or film stars such as Audrey Tatou who have become household names. There is a drift towards France – you go on holiday there, perhaps buy a second home there and ultimately take the decision to move there permanently.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00a0\u00bbAt a time when more Britons are looking to buy abroad, for example in the emerging east European markets, France is an established and attractive option.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tThe ICM survey, conducted to coincide with a marketing campaign for French wine, found that 32 per cent of Britons would choose France if they were given the choice of moving family and friends to a new location. Some 23 per cent would choose Britain – just four per cent more than would choose Spain or Italy.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tFrance is the favoured place for retirement with 37 per cent wishing to eke out their days in \u00a0\u00bbl’Hexagone\u00a0\u00bb as opposed to 30 per cent opting to stay in Britain. One per cent said they would retire to Germany.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tThe icons of France also seem to be more recognisable to Britons than some homegrown sights with more people able to identify the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe and the Louvre than the Blackpool Tower, Marble Arch or the National Gallery.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tFrench cuisine has also increased its stranglehold on British ideas of sophisticated dining. Almost two thirds of people consider a good breakfast to consist of coffee and a croissant, twice the number who choose toast and a cup of tea.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tSome 40 per cent also believe wine is the perfect drink to accompany a meal. But even British Francophilia has its limits.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tSeparate market research figures suggest that when it comes to wine at least, \u00a0\u00bbles rosbifs\u00a0\u00bb are no longer so enamoured with \u00a0\u00bbla vie fran\u00e7aise\u00a0\u00bb. Britons now drink more American wine than French, glugging down 3.5 million cases last year compared to 3.4 million cases of French.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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