Walking has a thousand virtues. Juan Luis Zabala said recently: “Walking / aienando my concerns. // Walking / resting. // I walked / strengthens my life” (Also to catch pain, Susa, 2022). About 250 years ago, Rousseau praised the benefits of tenacity, because it helps to reflect, to imagine, to invent, to create works (Les Rêches du promeneur solitaire, 1776-1778). A century later, the romantics theorized the act of walking (see Balzacen Théorie de la démarche, 1833), and this was praised in their fictions or poems, especially Victor Hugo. All the French writers I name gave a positive connotation to the Marche word.

In this sense, in contemporary times, philosophical, psychological or literary works that extol walking have multiplied in the French sphere. Sociologist David Lebreton, for example, has published the book Éloge de la marche in 2000, Marcher. Éloge des chemins et de la lenteur, in 2012 and Un art tranquille du bonheur, in 2020 (Métailié). She explains that running is the basis of our contemporary way of life: we have to make decisions on the move and the continuous run devours us the time we could pose, calm and reflect. We are in a situation of extreme immediacy, with memory loss, with crazy flows of events, without knowing how to survive, what to save from chaos, what to leave the successors. In this case, after all, life itself escapes us, in a hurry. In Bizkitarte, walking is to enter into resistance, says Lebreton, because it awakens inner and outer peace, prudence and joy, and in the background it offers the possibility of giving meaning to life.

Also, Martine Segalen (Les Enfants d’Achille et de Nike, Métailié, 1994), Frédéric Gros (Marcher, une philosophie, Carnets du Nord, 2008), Sarah Marquis (Sauvage par, Sauvage in Marsure, 2016, are Seuds’ intellectuals, about them,

However, Emmanuel Macron's latest words are not so proportional to these alone: she is going to impose, at all costs, the new laws that he has for young people, "à marche forcée", which means in a forced step. This expression comes from the military dictionary: "In Marche! ", former political party of the French lehendakari. with the name, this is the expression used in the situation of armed conflict. It generally coincides with the Germanian aspect of itself (regardless of the idea, the virus or the enemy of the citizen).

This dictionary contains concrete initiatives, for example, the “Citizen Rally” proposed this month to the schools of Iparralde, that is, a quick march for students with some members of the French army, so that young people can demonstrate their military march in Bayona.

Macron gave the name "Renaissance" to his political group, acquiring the implicit humanist word during the election. It takes the name of "marche" in a similar way, compaginating military maneuvers in the receiver's imagination, as if it wanted to extract the word from the forces of resistance. For their part, the demonstrators have not stopped their march to scream their anger.

“Walking, / walking / becoming homeland,” writes Zabala: Let’s follow a country of peace with steps and form.