Provins: Le Terminus

A future of politics from the back of beyond

PROVINS, France—This is the terminus—the final stop of the P line of the Transilean. It begins at the swarming Gare de l’Est—Paris’s eastern train station where the long-haul TGVs speed eastward, the renowned EuroNight express making stops in Strasbourg, Berlin, Warsaw,  Brest, Minsk and Moscow.  On nearby tracks, swarms of commuters arrive in Paris eac…