ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 3月1日 09時42分

Take a walk through Albi, #France, and you’ll find vacant storefronts scattered around the old center of a town dominated by a 13th-century brick cathedral, one of the country’s undisputed treasures. Tourist shops and chain clothing stores are open, but the groceries, cafes and butcher shops that once bustled with life are missing. For centuries, these shops defined small-town France. Measuring change, and decay, isn’t easy in this country, where beauty is just around the corner. But decline you can see in Albi is happening in hundreds of other provincial towns — dense hubs of urbanity deep in the countryside where judges judged, Balzac set his novels and citizens shopped for 50 cheeses. Losing the ancient French provincial capital is another blow to “Frenchness” — tangible evidence of a disappearing way of life that resonates in France in the same way that the hollowing out of main streets did in the United States decades ago. Visit the link in our profile to see more photos by @kostyukov and to read more.

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