As mentioned in these columns, in recent days, several Breton associations have announced their desire to disengage from the label the most beautiful festivals in France, because of its supposed links with Pierre-Edouard Sterin, a billionaire who hopes to see the right and the extreme right access to power in France.
Questioned by the telegram on Saturday August 9, 2025, Caroline Lescop, president of the organizing association of the medieval in Saint-Renan, assured that he had no reason to question her membership in the association the most beautiful festivals in France, which has already paid € 2,000 in medieval subsidies: “Never the association of the most beautiful festivals in France did not hold a political discourse, which would be unwelcome in a cultural association, change anything. We have never suspected any manipulation or a political label, ”explained Caroline Lescop.
“Vote an exceptional grant”
However, the new impetus group believes that the medieval festival must “keep an apolitical cultural line; This is to allow a commitment to volunteers, sponsors, patrons and communities (city, department, region) but also from the public, freed from any political ambition and controversy ”.
In this perspective, new impetus proposes to “allow the association to free itself from the label best festivals in France, by allocating an exceptional municipal subsidy of € 2,000 to replace the one that was affected”. A way to get out of this controversy “from above, by a unanimous decision of the municipal team on this exceptional subsidy”.
