Class tensions — never very far from the surface despite the fine sentiments of the French national motto “liberty, fraternity and equality” — exploded
Current Affairs : When top rated French writer Leila Slimani – the writer of “The Perfect Nanny” – conceded that she felt “similar to Sleeping Beauty” thinking about the coronavirus lockdown from the solace of her nation home, she hit an extremely crude nerve.
Class strains – never exceptionally a long way from the surface regardless of the fine assessments of the French national witticism “freedom, club and equity” – detonated.
Parisians without second homes to escape to abraded her via web-based networking media, with the financial expert Thomas Porcher, creator of “Les Delaisses” (which generally interprets as “Those Left Behind”), calling Slimani “profane”.
With gnawing incongruity, columnist Nicolas Quenel prescribed poor families read the journal of her rural restriction in Le Monde paper to “facilitate the strain of living in 15 square meters (160 square feet)” for a month.
Condos in the French capital are regularly minor, with about a fourth of the populace living in 30 square meters or less.
Nor was Slimani’s kindred author Diane Ducret intrigued. Stuck in a two-room level, and unfit to see the sky, she said Slimani was run of the mill of a specific position of France’s distant scholarly world class “for whom the upheaval doesn’t appear to have occurred”.
She contrasted the honor winning author with the “Marie Antoinette playing at being a rancher” in the nurseries of the Palace of Versailles, and “pretty much as in contact with dread and anguish of the individuals”.
The French sovereign later lost her head to the furious Parisian poor.
Aditi Mehta 