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Thierry Roussin
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Nov 8, 2024 at 8:44 a.m.
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Mayor of Vitrai-sous-L'Aigle (Orne), François Carbonell died Monday November 4, at the age of 66. Vice-president of the Community of Communes of Pays de L'Aigle in charge of town planning, patient architect of the development of the Local Intercommunal Town Plan (PLUi), he was also particularly involved in local associations.
He was notably the president of Lutille in the territories of L'Aigle and Mortagne, an association fighting against illiteracy. He also gave enormously to the L'Aigle rugby club.
Journalist at Réveil Normand and Eure Agricole
President of the association of rural mayors of Orne, president of village mayors following his friend Jean-Marie Vercruysse, François Carbonell knew what a furrow in the fertile earth was, what a path was. hollow. Journalist at Norman alarm clock for eight years in the 80s, he did not miss the opportunity to join the weeklyEure Agricole to express his knowledge of rurality.
Journalist, editor-in-chief in 1992 then director, he is the witness of a France which is losing its peasants and the prospect of the disappearance of the villages revulses him. He then decided to act even closer to the field by becoming mayor of Vitrai in 1995, and always re-elected since.
Letter to Francis
François,
How can I talk about you?
François, you have been my friend for 35 years… And for 4 terms, councilor and mayor of Vitrai under L'Aigle.
Since Monday I have realized everything that you were… even if I knew it, because François was the man I called for everything, and he was the friend that anyone would have wanted to have. We always agreed, at least on the essentials, and when there was a problem, he always had the right joke.
François was all about politics and the long evenings going over the results, he was the man who couldn't stay along the rugby field without saying anything. He was on the pitch, even in front of the television, he was experiencing the match. He lived every match… He lived intensely.
It was with François that the Vitrai festival committee was able to develop. He was always there to come up with ideas. The most improbable, the boot throw. Or when I asked him to bring My Shoes Are Red to a big concert, he said “ok!” » and wrote the press kit. Ah, he knew how to write like few people.
François, I am proud to have experienced these moments of sharing with you and your family. Because François is a family, and what a family! I was always at home, at their house… Sylvie his wife, Simon, David, Laurent and Isabelle, his children, I grew up with you and you are part of my family.
We are sad to say goodbye to you, but I'm sure you will say hello… you must have already arrived with your family and friends.
Big kisses
Jean Luc Nouail
Your pose… and rants
Born into a family of farmers, he knew exactly what his territory needed in order not to fade away in the face of artificialization. He demanded that rural territories be considered essential and he did everything to ensure that Orne did not become “an Indian reserve”.
Avoiding desertification was to avoid medical desertification. Patiently, with his calm tone sometimes enhanced by a few rants, this tenacious doctor is at the origin of the creation of the Health Center in the city center of L'Aigle.
His funeral at L'Aigle
Committed to the point of losing his health, François Carbonell sets off straight into his boots, proud of his legitimate fights and God knows he has led them.
Married and father of four children, François Carbonell will be buried Saturday November 9 at 2:30 p.m. at St-Martin de L'Aigle church.
New tributes
After the reaction of Jean Sellier, president of the Cdc du Pays de L'Aigle, here are other tributes.
Olivier Bitz, senator of the Orne
“It is with great emotion and sadness that I learned of the death of François Carbonell.
A passion for commitment drove him. In his role as an elected official, he was always keen to defend the legitimate ambitions of his territory with the principle of justice firmly in his heart. The attachment he had to our communities and to rural areas was the driving force behind a dedication that was both strong and sincere. His conception of integrity pushed him to refuse to compromise with anything that seemed essential to him, and to express his convictions with always courteous frankness.
The attention paid to others, especially the most vulnerable, was the affirmation of a humanism with deep roots.”
Serge Delavallée, vice-president of the Cdc
“I knew François in the 80s, then time passed and we went our separate ways.
We found ourselves at the beginning of the creation of the Community of Communes, around thirty years ago. The memory I will keep of François is that of a committed elected official, who was always keen to defend his convictions.
Vice-president for social action for 2 terms, he has always shown courage to support the most deprived. He was keen to support all those who were in difficulty.
Goodbye François, we will miss your strong presence.”
Thierry Pinot, former mayor of L'Aigle, former vice-president of the Cdc
“Francois was the most faithful among us, faithful to his ideas and his projects, and in his too short life, I do not remember him deviating from what he thought. It also earned him some great verbal jousts in the Community of Municipalities. He didn't let anyone miss anything.
Faithful among the faithful, that’s why I loved you. You were a sure value, dear François, that's why we loved you, a rare and unique person. You were a chosen one whose disciple we always wanted to be. All your life you have been an elected official who said what he did and did what he said. We could trust you, the Vitreans were never wrong.”
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