Abstract EN:

This dissertation queries the processes at work in the political construction of the capital and assesses their impact on the local configuration of paris. It gives an account of the conflict which at the start of the third republic opposed the Parisians, led by the groupe d'autonomie communale to those who, increasingly greater in number as democratisation gradually set in, claimed to have a leading national role in the destiny of the city : state representatives, elected members of the nation, but also men of letters or members of associations. It sets out to show how the nationalisation of paris, whose achievement ousts the urban democracy of legitimate political interests, gradually becomes acceptable to parisians when, at the turn of the century, the local cultural and political arena itself became the relay for identity proposals founded upon the rejection of citizenship. Through exclusion in the form of a refusal to take a part, the general self-overestimation of Parisians learning to draw benefit from the identification of paris with France made up for the frustrations caused by their political end.