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TO UNDERSTAND FRANCE’S POLITICAL MALAISE, LOOK TO RAYMOND DEPARDON’S WORKS. . As the popular revolt paralyzed France last week in the ways unseen since the events of May 1968, one curious fact about the protesters empty sparsely populated diagonal running from the Ardennes in the northeast to the remote Nouvelle-Aquitaine in the southwest.  This That this ‘apolitical’ France had turned against Emmanuel Macron’s reforms bode ill for the president, still only in year two of his quinquennial mandate. This is the France of “des peti*s, des matraques, des spolies, des lamines, des humilies” — the little men, downtrodden, trashed, ripped-off, and the humiliated, by “the vampire state” — in the words of Pierre Poujade, whose occupations as a docker, gra*e-picker and road-mender were testaments to the career options opened to men born in this empty France, as Poujade did in Saint-Céré in the Lot Valley. Impossibly, Poujade managed to organize a 500,000 member-strong union, took a fifth of them on an anti-tax march to Paris in January 1955, and won 12% of the vote in the following year’s elections (one of its 52 elected This France was captured in the photos of Raymond Depardon, himself son of peasants, born on a fa*m in the Saone region. For an ambitious fa*m to docu*ent its gradual decline, and revisited rural France again and again in his photos and three docu*entaries, this was the France of 1980s, 1990s, and the 2000s, conjured up in the dark grimy black-and-white, far from services, populated by dead and dying men, working for dead and dying fa*ms, living in hardscrabble cottages alongside unkempt trees and antique appliances. American states are a weird as*embly of riotous traditions, laws, and items. Pumpkin pie is the official state pie in Illinois, Oregon has an official state nut, and New Mexico an official state question. Oklahoma, de*p in the Bible Belt and contrarian, insists that watermelon is its state vegetable. In Missouri, the official state dessert was ice cream cone, in Nebraska, Kool-Aid is the official soft