Women were politically active in the Paris Commune's 1871 experiment in socialist democracy, calling for equal pay, crèches and recognition of informal marriage. Though the Commune did not survive, those ideals lived on.
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François de Mazières, Versailles’s mayor since 2008, is a big fan of bicycles and architecture. He was re-elected for a third term in 2020, as an independent on a ‘divers droite’ (miscellaneous rightwing)…
Versailles, the Sun King's city, just 20km from Paris, has historical cachet, upmarket architecture, green spaces and rightwing politics — everything to appeal to France's monied middle classes.