REGIONS
The lines were redrawn in 2016 and nobody moved
Thirteen regions, and the identities underneath them.
- Twenty-two regions became thirteen and nothing else changed
The 2016 reform merged regions on a map without merging what people call themselves. Grand Est is an administrative unit; Alsace is not.
- Brittany writes Kemper under Quimper on purpose
Bilingual signage is policy, not decoration, and Breton's legal position is different from Welsh or Catalan in ways that show on the road.
- You can read the border in the pitch of a roof
Alsace keeps German in its wine bottles, its roof angles and its half-timbering, because it kept changing hands.
- Three days of wind counts as an explanation
In Provence the wind is named, expected, and accepted as a reason.
- The north is built from brick and does not apologise
Coalfield towns, belfries and brick terraces — a France that looks nothing like the one on the posters.