Controversy – Several events labeled the best festivals in France have decided to withdraw from the association, accused of being under the thumb of the far -right billionaire Pierre -Édouard Sterin
Ripaille, folk dances and costumes, medieval shows … all year round, and especially summer, thousands of festivals atmosphere the villages of France and Navarre to honor all the richness of our terroir and our ancestral traditions. Celebrated in his 13 hour news by the late Jean-Pierre Pernaut, all these traditional festivals are “an element constituting our heritage”, according to Thomas Meslin.
Passionate about a very young age by these votive, agricultural, pastoral or gastronomic festivals, this young thirties also made a mission to defend them because “they are in danger” with a third of them who have disappeared from the Covid wave. Hence the idea of a label of the most beautiful festivals in France, launched a little over a year ago, to give them visibility, to federate them, but also to bring them financial aid. “The ambition is quite simple: to rediscover the French the richness of our regions”, indicated to us in June the co -founder of the label.
An article in humanity sets fire to the powder
On paper, nothing controversial until then. But in early July, the daily life L’Humanité came to bring a completely different light on the association behind this label which says “strictly apolitical, non -lucrative and disinterested”. We learn that it is controlled by Studio 496, an agency specializing in the design of festive events and led by Thibault Farrenq, former suppl candidate (…)
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