Les Foulées de La Presse de la Manche, collateral victims of the elimination of a public holiday?

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Reading this title can be scary. What's more, after a 2024 edition of all records for the Foulées de La Presse de la Manche. The idea of ​​a second day of solidarity supported by Republican senators, is, in fact, making headway, while the examination of the Social Security financing bill must begin Wednesday November 13, 2024

in the Senate. Yes, but which public holiday to mark among the eleven existing in the calendar? Several ideas came to the table. And in particular that of November 11, carried in particular by Jean-François Copé: “We don't need a holiday to commemorate November 11

or that would mean that we have 65 million French people at the foot of the war memorials… That would be known. » If we were to follow the “advice” of the mayor of Meaux (Seine-et-Marne), what would become of Les Foulées? Should we make do and risk losing some of the participants? Should we find another date

at the risk of congesting the calendar of popular demonstrations?

When he created the flagship event of Cotentin, Marcel Clairet had deliberately focused on November 11th.

This date of November 11 is “untouchable”

Marcel Clairet, the founder of Les Foulées de La Presse de la Manche Finally, this great moment of collective happiness should retain its favorite date and its very special place in the calendar. A consensus seems, in fact, to be emerging on not touching memorial days

Videos: currently on Actu The president of French Souvenir Serge Barcellini thus considered that November 11 was “untouchable”. A message perfectly heard by Prime Minister Michel Barnier

who clarified his position during a ceremony at the Great War Museum in… Meaux. “It’s a holiday to which we are attached.”All lovers of the Foulées can therefore (a priori) breathe a big sigh of relief and alreadyprepare to break a new participation record

… November 11, 2025.