A multitude of animations were scheduled, in the city center of the Cévennes capital, in the Gard, on the occasion of a commemoration for which the municipality unrolled the red carpet.
Parades of vintage civil and military vehicles, with the first line of the US army M4 Sherman tank seen in the film “Fury”, interpreted in particular by Brad Pitt, a giant picnic, concerts, a commemoration, etc. And a large audience to attend this day of celebration of the 80th anniversary of the victory of May 8, 1945, ending the Second World War in Europe, that the municipality of Alès wanted, this Thursday, May 8, 2025, with great fanfare.
“What matters to me is commemoration”
Among the crowd, some sported vintage outfits, leaving a leap in the past. Like Vincent Peyric, 24 years old and professor of history-geography in Saint-Ambroix. He has a gendarme outfit dating from the conflict and evolves on a 1925 Demos bike, which once belonged to a Alesian. He too paraded and it will make him “Memories. But what matters, for me, is commemoration.” Because his grandfather was resistant and, during an ambush, he had been saved by two gendarmes. “Hence the importance”for him, to wear such a uniform …
Ruby Bishop, an incarnation of the 40’s and 50’s
And then, further away, a 26 -year -old Alias Ruby Bishop is Justine. “Daily”she carries outfits of the 1940s and 50s and, this Thursday, does not sulk her pleasure of parade for the first time in the streets of her city.
A colorful day, therefore, haloed with a … beautiful victory.
