Organized by the municipality of Plouha, Secularism Week was punctuated by several highlights: concerts, theaters, exhibitions and film screenings. Friday, 5th grade students from Jean-Louis Hamon College, Mayor Xavier Compain and elected officials went to the Les Genêts d’Or nursing home to plant an albizia, an ornamental tree.
Messages in the trees
“We must mobilize if we want to avoid the worst, to reaffirm the foundations of our humanism. Our goal? Make the republican ideal and project more present, more attractive and more effective. Freedom is not a privilege but an inalienable, non-negotiable right. Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard now embody, for so many men and women, the Republic, the one which does not give up, which assumes responsibility, with respect and Fraternity,” recalled the mayor.
In class, the middle school students had written messages on secularism. In front of some residents, they recited a poem entitled “The man who looks like you” and the students took turns reading their messages before hanging them in the trees in the residence’s garden.
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