ABSTRACT
A social alliance centred on the educated middle classes, the bloc bourgeois would gather the fractions of the left and right blocs favourable to European integration and the implied reforms of French capitalism. As a complement of this bloc, an 'anti-bourgeois bloc' would gather the social groups excluded from the bloc bourgeois, mainly the working classes. The political representation of this bloc would be unclear, at least in France. During the presidential campaign of 2012, the candidate for the Parti socialiste (PS) Francois Hollande made a series of promises that led one to believe that he aimed at a strategy based on the reunification of the left bloc. The strategy of President Hollande, based on a renewed European commitment and neoliberal structural reforms, and that of Marine Le Pen, centred on a return to national sovereignty and the defence of the French model, point to a restructuring of the French political landscape.
