Bullou. JUNE 29: Alice Rolland will be the 114th rose gardener. The crowning glory of the 114 e rosière de Bullou (Dangeau), Alice Rolland, will take place on Saturday June 29, from 5:15 p.m., in front of the community hall. Accompanied in the Saint-Pierre church by the Illiers-Combray band and her bridesmaids, Valentine and Marie, Alice Rolland will be crowned from 5:30 p.m., by deacon Jean-Pierre Cochery.
A general final year student, specializing in SES and Mathematics, at the Rémi-Belleau high school in Nogent-Le-Rotrou, she will be accompanied, to the church, by children who will ride on flowered bicycles. The coronation will be followed by a reception then the evening will continue with a country buffet (registration required). The guests will conclude this day of conviviality in front of a fireworks display on the communal grounds.
Tradition
“We are delighted that this tradition can continue. The municipality wants to maintain all village festivals, indicates the mayor, Olivier Houdy. The rose garden festival brings together all the inhabitants of the new commune.”
This demonstration was born on June 18, 1903, in Bullou. To thank her for having “given bread to his mother and grandfather”, Pierre Riollet from Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne) bequeathed his property to the town of Bullou. This legacy was used for his burial, and the balance to be crowned, each year on the 1st is Sunday in July, closest to Saint Peter’s Day, “a poor and wise girl” born in Bullou and less than twenty-one years old.
The first was crowned in 1908. The legacy was spent a long time ago, but the town considered it important to maintain this local activity.
