At the crossroads of the departmental road, a banner was hung on a fence: “Joigny is looking for a doctor”. Higher up, on the hill overlooking the old town, is the gate of a school which is decorated with a calico proclaiming “No to closing classes”. Under the December sun, Joigny seems charming with its narrow streets of medieval houses dominated by the castle of the Counts of Gondi and its vineyards in the background. The decor, however, hides one of the cities most affected by state reform.
The former sub-prefecture of Yonne experienced a real public social plan in fifteen years, seeing most of its national administrations close their offices. A Senate report even designated it, in 2011, “martyr city of the GDPR [révision générale des politiques publiques] ». In fact, the city lost more than 500 civil servants. A real bloodletting for a town of 9,000 inhabitants.
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