A week before the first round of municipal elections, a report in the town of Montreuil, a traditional communist, where the mayor will have to fight to keep his place because a new category of inhabitants has invested the city and some of its neighborhoods: the bobos or bourgeois bohemians. Interviews with Christine ERNOUT, real estate agent in Montreuil, Jean-Pierre BRARD, candidate of the Union of the Communist Left and Dominique VOYNET, ecologist candidate.
The gentrification of Belleville, a popular district in Paris, is a source of concern for local associations. Interviews with Monique ANDRE and Omer MAS CAPITOLIN, from the association "Maison pour un développement solidaire". The first is openly hostile to the establishment of these families, which she describes as bourgeois, while the second alert on quick shortcuts. The challenge of Belleville is that all populations find their place.
The president of the Front National, Jean Marie LE PEN, called the press to present his new campaign space and took the opportunity to make an update on the statements of his opponents regarding crime and security. The opportunity to attack the socialist candidate and favorite of the polls, Ségolène Royal, whom he described as "the muse of the bobos".
Shot in the Montorgueil district of Paris, this report focuses on the vote of "bobos" or "bourgeois bohemians" voters in the second round of the presidential election, while they voted massively for Ségolène Royal and François Bayrou in the first round. Sidewalk in the streets and restaurants of the neighborhood.
Claude SERILLON receives the RPR candidate for Paris City Hall, Philippe SEGUIN, to discuss the political context in which his campaign and his political program is placed. Philippe Séguin claims to be a candidate to win back Paris and evokes the reasons for the loss of Paris by the right: the sociological evolution of households, the appearance of couples of "bobos" (bourgeois-bohemians) and the general rejection of the right. To the question of Claude Sérillon "are you a bobo? bourgeois maybe but not bohemian?" ,Philippe Séguin answers with a smile "I leave you to your assessments".
For the holiday season, luxury brands target bohemian "bobos" or bourgeois: champagne with straw, surprise log in the shape of a Santa hat, foie gras with cocoa and galette des rois with tagada strawberries. The "bobo" is ready to pay as long as we surprise him... Interviews with pastry chef Christophe ADAM and chef Jean Pierre CLEMENT.
Rachid ARHAB talks to François BIZOT, author of the preface of the French version of the book of the American journalist David Brooks "Bobos in paradise". Together they evoke the phenomenon of bohemian "bobos" or bourgeois. According to the writer, this neologism designates, in France, persons politically oriented towards the party of the Greens (ecologists) and having inherited a libertarian spirit post-sixty-eightitard.
Report devoted to the "gentrification" or "boboïsation" of the Ménilmontant district, in Paris. Férid KADDOUR, manager of the tea room and activist bookstore "Thé troc", deplores the absence of social diversity formerly existing in the neighborhood and evokes the commitment of "bobos" only when it comes to the education of their children. Anne DELABROUSSE and Fabrice EGALIS, parents of students mobilized around some families of undocumented of the neighborhood, deny giving themselves good conscience by helping these foreigners in distress.
Interview with Laure WATTRIN, author of the book "La république bobo", about this social group with strong cultural capital and, often, very invested in the neighborhoods in which it comes to bring social diversity.