With his strong datasets, striking prose, and cheerful curiosity, Jérôme Fourquet is undoubtedly one of the best analysts of contemporary France. After L’Archipel français (2019) and La France sous nos yeux (2021), co-authored with fellow essayist Jean-Laurent Cassely, he now offers us a kind of trend report of the dynamics that he tracks. This book [French Transformations: The State of France in Infographics and Images] is more visual than his others, with sketches, photos, maps, and brief commentaries, which come together to create a fascinating portrait of the transformations so perfectly revealed by the author.
This new work demonstrates the quality of his focus and his method for using significant facts and figures to understand the major shifts in a country that is dechristianizing, Americanizing, becoming more polarized, and above all, undergoing profound transformation.
Without the slightest academic pedantry, the author acts as the geographer of territories reshaped by
