Nineteen Years Old and Mayor in France

Sometimes a political change does not begin in Paris, not under the gilded ceilings of the National Assembly, but in a village of a few hundred inhabitants, somewhere between fields, county roads and mailboxes where time sticks more slowly than elsewhere. This place is called Pré-Saint-Évroult. A little spot of France in the Eure-et-Loir department, quiet, rural, unspectacular. And precisely because of that, the story of Brian Pellerin reads like…