David Lisnard, the mayor at war against incivism3 reading minutes

As the republican mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard has made social savoir-vivre a political cause. His ideas, set out in his book Rebuilding community, and its actions in the field show what role the State can play in this issue, which is first and foremost about education.

In European debates on the decadence of civic mores, eyes rarely turn to France for positive examples. Paradoxically, the land of the French art de vivre seems to have become mired in a sterile dialectic: denunciation of a resigning yet obese state, fascination with an abstract order never truly embodied... One figure stands out everywhere in this hardly cheerful picture. That of David Lisnard, mayor of Cannes and champion of responsible, cultured liberalism. This right-winger, who founded his own movement