Word: chanzeaux
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...last fifteen years, Wylie has spent two years and several summers in the small French villages of Roussillon and Chanzeaux, studying the inhabitants and their way of life. His best-known book, Village in the Vaucluse, resulted from his experience in Roussillon...
Poujade's line has remained constant, but Chanzeaux is changing considerably. The town has become prosperous and confident since 1958, according to Laurence Wylie. C. Douglass Dillon Professor of French Civilization, who visited Chanzeaux at election-time to talk and make tape-recordings for his course in French sociology...
When townsmen told him last month "This election means nothing; it changes nothing," Wylie took that remark as an important indicator of Chanzeaux's new attitude. For, with prosperity and the growth of voluntary organizations, Chanzeaux has lost its feeling of dependence upon the parties in which it long ago lost faith. The townsmen are confident that they can advance their interests effectively through their voluntary associations and by dealing directly with the civil service...
...prosperity that weakened the parties and destroyed Poujade was evident in the televisions, appliances, new cars, and farm machinery which gave Chanzeaux a much more modern cast than when Wylie first visited with his family...
Although expansion has been accomplished by plunging many farmers into debt, the only serious flaw in the changed economic structure, this has not tempered the general optimism. Chanzeaux, Wylie reports, is no longer fatalistic about its future. When he asked, "What's going to happen?" the answer last month was on verra bien (we'll see about it) instead of the usual c'est sera sera (what will be will be). This new confidence is changing what Chanzeaux--and the rest of France--expects from politics, and moderating the passion with which villagers have traditionally treated political controversy...