Beaucaire - 29 December 2016

1. Tilt up Brexit Street

2. Garbage truck on Brexit Street

3. Beaucaire garbage centre on Brexit Street

4. Close of panel (French) 'Beaucaire community - Terre d'Argence' (name of the community)

5. Garbage centre on Brexit Street

6. Beaucaire Town Hall and market

7. French flags

8. Various of Beaucaire Mayor Julien Sanchez at his desk

9. Sanchez pointing where Brexit Street is on a map

10. SOUNDBITE (French) Julien Sanchez, Mayor of Beaucaire:

"It's a homage to actuality and to history. History is not only 15-hundred or 16-hundred years it's written daily. I think the British wrote history in 2016 with Brexit, and we wanted to pay them homage through this street's name."

11. Sanchez talking to his chief of staff

12. SOUNDBITE (French) Julien Sanchez, Mayor of Beaucaire:

"We hope for a lot from the next elections. Marine Le Pen (President of the National Front) very clearly said she wishes to renegotiate the place of France in the European Union, renegotiate and find our sovereignty back in the migration field, and also the economy."

13. Various market

14. SOUNDBITE (French) Vox pop, Fabienne (no last name given), Tarascon resident (neighbouring town to Beaucaire):

"This is a very good choice... To think that the English made a good decision, and I think he (Sanchez) is right to stand behind them."

15. Market stalls

16. SOUNDBITE (French) Rabah Ouahrani, Former town hall councillor:

"What's the point? Is this to encourage French people to do 'Frexit'? I don't think so. France is France. UK is the UK. They could have named the street Elizabeth II, why not? But Brexit? This is nonsense, truly."

17. Market

18. SOUNDBITE (French) Vox pop, Michel Adami, singer:

"There are famous names in Provence (region), no need to use English names... Let's stay... At home. The English want to stay home... We should start to stay home too, with real French names."

19 Various of Beaucaire

The community of Beaucaire, a town in the south of France, was divided on Thursday about its far-right mayor's decision to name one of the town's streets 'Brexit Street.'

Mayor Julien Sanchez explained that he thinks "the British wrote history in 2016 with Brexit, and we wanted to pay them homage through this street's name."

The future 'Brexit Street' is a circular road that provides access to the community garbage centre.

It lies on the outskirts of the town of 16-thousand, in an industrial zone.

It departs and ends in Robert Schuman Street, the name of one the founders of the European Union.