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David Salvan

Independent author — political essays, technical imagination, Mars novels and free-access public dossiers.

David Salvan

David Salvan

“Beyond diagnosis, I write to propose. Stories, analyses and dossiers, available to everyone.”

Originally from Réunion Island, self-taught and multidisciplinary, David Salvan publishes novels, essays and public dossiers on delta-sierra.com. His work ranges from the reform of the French State to sovereignty, housing, democracy, artificial intelligence, public spending and a realistic anticipation saga about the first human settlement on Mars.

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🧾 Articles and public dossiers

Articles and public dossiers

All the main analyses, dossiers and open letters available from the international homepage.

At every toll booth, you are not paying for a road. You are paying a rent.

Economy & taxation

At every toll booth, you are not paying for a road. You are paying a rent.

Motorways, the 2006 privatization and a State-organized rent.

Social aid and dependency

Society

Social aid and dependency

An open letter to political leaders.

At the origins of Europe

Politics & democracy

At the origins of Europe

American influence on European construction from 1948 to 1960, and what it has become today.

France sickened by its standards and delays

Economy & taxation

France sickened by its standards and delays

Data centers in France: the mirage of 75 billion euros.

The organized decline of France

Politics & democracy

The organized decline of France

Economic betrayal and the abandonment of sovereignty.

Failures of energy renovation

Housing & real estate

Failures of energy renovation

Complaint about the structural flaws of the system.

Democracy in peril

Politics & democracy

Democracy in peril

Diagnosis of a system at the end of its rope.

Sovereignty agencies: preserve, reform, modernize

Politics & democracy

Sovereignty agencies: preserve, reform, modernize

Complementary dossier on the agencies to keep and reform.

Merging agencies

Politics & democracy

Merging agencies

Simplification and coherence of public action.

Reintegrating agencies into ministries

Politics & democracy

Reintegrating agencies into ministries

Clarity and political responsibility.

Removing obsolete bodies

Politics & democracy

Removing obsolete bodies

Rationalization and budgetary discipline.

Operational appendix: dismantling kit

Politics & democracy

Operational appendix: dismantling kit

Operational annexes for implementing reform.

Does the French State still need 105,000 tax agents in 2026?

Economy & taxation

Does the French State still need 105,000 tax agents in 2026?

Taxation, artificial intelligence and the rupture of consent to tax.

Fiber versus Starlink: where France fails

Economy & taxation

Fiber versus Starlink: where France fails

The failure of French digital deployment.

France against its entrepreneurs

Economy & taxation

France against its entrepreneurs

A status report on my camping project facing a hallucinating administration.

France produces the cheapest electricity in Europe. Yet the French pay more and more for it.

Economy & taxation

France produces the cheapest electricity in Europe. Yet the French pay more and more for it.

European market, ARENH, EDF and energy sovereignty.

The democracy of appearances

Politics & democracy

The democracy of appearances

When the smile replaces the program, when image replaces thought.

Fiscal France: a heavily taxed country with declining consent

Economy & taxation

Fiscal France: a heavily taxed country with declining consent

Taxes, levies, tax expenditures and the crisis of consent.

Self-defense: legal analysis and reform proposals

Society

Self-defense: legal analysis and reform proposals

When the law poorly protects those who defend themselves.

The limits of democracy

Politics & democracy

The limits of democracy

From the bypassed 2005 referendum to urban riots, fiscal AI and institutional refoundation.

Rental permits: what comes next?

Housing & real estate

Rental permits: what comes next?

When the State turns an act of property into an obstacle course.

Rupture Plan

Politics & democracy

Rupture Plan

A four-level summary: seven dossiers to rebuild France democratically.

Why the French are leaving France

Society

Why the French are leaving France

Beyond millionaires, a systemic crisis.

Proposals to revive the rental supply

Housing & real estate

Proposals to revive the rental supply

Solving the housing crisis through private landlords.

What is going wrong in France?

Politics & democracy

What is going wrong in France?

Anatomy of a decline — four converging dossiers.

Referendum: a stone thrown into the pond

Politics & democracy

Referendum: a stone thrown into the pond

Philippe de Villiers’ initiative and the silence of the elites.

State reform: cleaning up the agencies

Politics & democracy

State reform: cleaning up the agencies

Umbrella dossier mapping the 1,470 satellite bodies of the State.

Structural reform of the State: stakes and levers

Politics & democracy

Structural reform of the State: stakes and levers

A rupture plan for 350 billion euros in annual savings.

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