Is this the end of French rural depopulation ?

Demographers in the mid-twentieth century predicted French rural depopulation resulting in an increase in the Parisian population. Recent censuses have shown the opposite, namely that there has been a marked tendency in the growth of the smallest towns and villages. Hervé Le Bras has studied this phenomenon in detail and he shows us a reconstruction of the difference between rural and urban life based on political rather than demographic factors. Above all, he presents a scathing analysis of the errors made in demography. These mistakes are numerous and frequent as a certain number of examples prove. It is as if, despite recognised scientific probity and reasonable observations, demographers were influenced unintentionally by their generation’s way of thinking.