MUNICIPALITY ELECTIONS OF THE 4TH DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF PARIS: Jean-François Moreau, M.D. is leading a list, "Santé & Culture" (Health and Culture) without political label, founded on the philosophy of the "Hexargonautics."

There is something of the 4th district of the city of Paris in the heart of each French citizen. Like twin siblings in the 4th district of the city of Paris, Cathedral Notre-Dame and Hôtel-Dieu are the symbols of the millennium-long battles of the people of Paris against the everlasting misery of the human body and soul. Both of them were created in 1160ies in the mean time and aside of each other.  This oldest hospital on the European continent, likely of the world (with The Barts in London), became, in time, the hospital-symbol of service to human Health, helped by the progress in the medical profession, first a clinic, then a scientific institution more efficient and unfortunately costly.

Twelve valued candidates including myself will devote themselves to defend and illustrate here the French humanism in its Parisian version referring to the six moral values that form the basis the reality of the "Hexargonautics":  Liberty - Employment - Equality - Family - Brotherhood - Love for the home country.  It is these values that cause us to become engaged in the local government, despite the imperfections of our human condition.  Our campaign does not depend on any advocacy. It will be run at the territory and on the Internet.  We will not limit ourselves to a mere market survey.  From the 1st of February, and every day thereafter, we will be at locations where you may hear us and speak with us, respecting fairness and the right of people to their freedom of speech.

The intellectual nullity of the professional electoral is rejected, together with red and blue stereotypes.  It prevents us French, starting with Parisians, from conquering the time and place of the 21st century.  The world, which loves or hates France and the French spirit, is expecting something else than our pretence to want to stay the paragon, the universal undying virtue. Most of the French statements feeding our caricatural "Mr. Blot" are outdated or obsolete because they aren't evidenced anymore with objective arguments. Influenced by the Latin world, English and Spanish are the most commonly spoken languages in the Planet. I speak them both in the real world, as well as in the virtual, and two-dimensional world of the Internet.  We should learn them, and speak them, because the future belongs firstly to the multilinguals who speak well their mother-tongue, and export it without arrogance.

After losing three times in 30 years the bid of Paris on the occasion of the organization of the Olympic Games and the seemingly intensifying of the "French bashing" phenomenon, Paris does not have but two strong points of international value to help the city avoid becoming redundant to other European capitals e.g. London, Vienna: The Hôtel-Dieu and the international headquarters of UNESCO.  Nevertheless, both of these institutions are going through a major, if not potentially deadly, crisis.

Like twin siblings in the 4th district of the city of Paris, Cathedral Notre-Dame and Hôtel-Dieu are the symbols of the millennium-long battles of the people of Paris against the everlasting misery of the human body and soul. Both of them were created in 1160ies in the mean time and aside of each other.  This oldest hospital on the European continent, likely of the world (with The Barts in London), became, in time, the hospital-symbol of service to human Health, helped by the progress in the medical profession, first a clinic, then a scientific institution, and then more efficient and unfortunately costly.

The professional politicians were they afraid to speak about the health of Parisians?  Six weeks before the ballot, their silence is eloquent. In what way are they going to handle the Hôtel-Dieu, knowing that they are capable of destroying the ephemeral career of a General Director of the Public-Hospitals Assistance of Paris (AP-HP)? The rejected Mireille Faugère's immature but promising project of Hôtel-Dieu transformed in University Hospital of Public Health encompassing a big Museum never was discussed democratically before she was suddenly fired.  The list that I head opposes demagogical manipulation of this Haussmann inspired architectural icon. The extreme leftists want to keep the building open to in-patients despite its sanitary obsolescence; the rightists haven't expressed their vision yet: perhaps a fancy commercial center with a ***** palace hotel instead of a clinic??

Why is it a duty to make the Hôtel-Dieu of Paris the first temple in the planet devoted to Health and Culture?  Because there is no official definition of the word Health, even in the very heart of the World Organization of Health. One can check this statement on the website of WHO, in all languages. The pretty definition of 1948 has just simply disappeared.  You will find it if you dial "health definition" on Google that will open a raw hidden page only. Nevertheless, it was so easy to teach it, and to learn it in primary schools[1].  It was never replaced, at least in France, and we should be surprised that all the politicians presumably of public health, fail one after the other, in the entire world, in front of the sound of the absurd statement, which says, "Health doesn't have a price, but a cost."

We should look at the reality of modern sanitation in the face while most of the French have a restricted vision of it:  1) The challenge of Physical Health in the 21st century is the unavoidable increase in life-expectancy which suggests that many will live one-hundred years or more. 2) Mental Health is going to depend more and more on the impact of the growing research in genetics and neurosciences: since the human birth, may be the fetal stage, it should hopefully influence positively the harmonious growth of both intelligence and emotion power of the individual, according to both Descartes and Spinoza's complementary philosophical theories guiding the definition of that of contemporary humanism concepts. 3) The challenge of Social Health targets the good quality of existence of a given individual when he/she is expected to live peacefully within varied kinds of human groups or close to ones submitted for the general rule of struggle for life.

The catholic cathedral of Notre-Dame is the geographic center of the oval city of Paris, but it's also the official center of the French Republic despite it's not that of the almost perfectly hexagonal French territory.  The sabotage of UNESCO by the United States and Israel is asphyxiating this General Quarter of Paris.  In conjunction with the "bashing" of French as one of the official language of the United Nations, the influence risks to be transferred in English towards the Pacific Zone in the world, and probably towards Vienna in Europe, if (the Mayor of) Paris and the Élysée (Palace of the President of the French Republic) and the Quai d'Orsay (Minister of the Foreign Affairs) do not take their future in their own hands. UNESCO is synonymous with Culture, and the banks of the Seine are classified as part of the World Heritage, when in contrast to Notre-Dame, the Hôtel-Dieu is neither classified nor registered as a Historical Monument.  There is no Health nor Social Health, without Culture.  The practice of medicine being itself an Art, has become a Science connected to Biology and Sociology, at the origins of technologies and facilities designed for such practice.  Public Health should be taught as a life-long learning process. The Education System is seen as the first mission of UNESCO; its UniTwin Chair Program is almost unknown in France and underdeveloped in the World.

We should transform Hôtel-Dieu of Paris into a universal Temple of Public Health and Culture. It should invite OMS and UNESCO, which usually ignore each other, to cooperate in a permanent innovative structure as a Think+Action tank. It should be classified it as a World Heritage of UNESCO monument.  Let us stop dreaming of the Belle Époque and the Années folles, when we evoke the city of Paris.  The 21st century is a time of choice for a new civilization, amidst the enslaving robotization of humanity, with its harmonious expansion in its physical and intellectual potential as a social body, healthy and, well educated. The Internet via satellites and optic fibers allows unlimited means of education. The good Health of the World, in other words, Peace, is dependent on it. 

Dr. Jean-François Moreau, AIHP, HyFACR.

Professeur émérite, Université Paris Descartes

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Translation in English published after revisions by Maria Sapouna (Oxford, UK), Annette Harvill (Atlanta, Georgia), Dr. Bruce McClennan (Hartford, Connecticut).

[1] There is a definition of health in Merriam-Webster: the condition of being sound in body, mind, or spirit; especially :  freedom from physical disease or pain.