Is the capital of “Emily in Paris” the one dreamed up by the anti-Hidalgos?

• The third season of

  Emily in Paris

  was released on December 21 on Netflix.

  She still follows the adventures of a young American who came to work in the capital.

• Some opponents of the current municipality would like the Paris on the screen to correspond to reality.

• But "even the "signature" places, which were also the pride of Parisians, no longer resemble what they used to be and what we see in "Emily in Paris"", estimates the initiator of the #SaccageParis movement. .

After the foie gras, will you take a layer of marshmallow with the third season of

 ?

And if you live in the capital, you may even feel like you are traveling to another city.

But is this fantasized Paris shown on screen the one dreamed of by opponents of the Anne Hidalgo municipality?

"We would like it to be the truth, to make people dream, to say that if you come to Paris, it's like that, but we know that's not the case", regrets Véronique Chartier, vice-president of the Union Parisienne association, not very tender with the town hall of Paris.

She admits to always watching the episodes twice, being monopolized during the first viewing by the (vain) search for elements that disfigure her city.

"When the girl sings on the Pont des Arts, they shouldn't have filmed the ground because you can't see the rotten planks," she laughs.

"What I regret is that even these "signature" places, which were also the pride of Parisians such as the Eiffel Tower, the Champ de Mars, the Trocadero, the Buttes-Chaumont no longer look like what they used to. and what we see in

 ”, completes @panamepropre, creator of the hashtag #SaccageParis.

“It is certain that before shooting a scene, they clean the streets”, abounds Valérie Montandon, elected LR member of the town planning commission.

A “completely artificial” series

“Beyond the postcard effect of the series, continues the municipal councilor, we hope for a cleaner Paris with elegant furniture and sidewalks that are not constantly gutted by endless work.

As in the series, Véronique Chartier would like "the city to be clean and secure, with no holes everywhere on the sidewalks".

Valérie Montandon also sees in this series a snub to the initiatives of the municipal majority.

“What is shown is an urban planning in line with the singularity of Paris, it is Second Empire street furniture,” she notes.

The trend is towards respecting history and not low-end experimentation with recycled materials from Anne Hidalgo.

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But the diatribes against the mayor of Paris do not make Véronique Chartier forget that the series is "completely artificial".

"As Parisians, we all know that Paris has always been 'tough', demanding, very dense and that it does not correspond to the clichés of

 ", underlines @panamepropre.

But basically, it's not so much the image of Paris on the screen that is criticized, it is even rather desired, but the life of the characters.

“It's not the Paris I dream of, privileged backgrounds who never take the metro.

We don't live like that, ”concludes the vice-president of the Parisian Union who admits watching the series for the handsome Alfie, played by Lucien Laviscount.

If it's any consolation, that's it.

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