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Maxime Berthelot
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Dec 30 2024 at 8:03 p.m.
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At 24 hours from New Year and the transition to 2025, The Rep invites you to relive the highlights of the year 2024 has Province (Seine-et-Marne) and its region.
Let them be happy or dramatic, unusual or expectedhere are the events that have animated my last twelve months.
January 2024: farmers express their anger in convoy in Provins
In the wake of the national agricultural protest movement which blocked France at the start of 2024, farmers in the Provins region took to the streets on January 25.
Nearly 60 tractors converged in a procession towards the upper town roundabout, from the medieval city, Donnemarie-Dontilly, Villiers-Saint-Georges, Bray-sur-Seine and Nangis.
“We want to mark the occasion to show that we have reached a point of no return in terms of constraints, standards and unfair competition,” they explained.
A year later, their movement is about to resume. New blockages are announced January 5, 2025.
February 2024: already 2 years of exile for Olena, gynecologist at Provins hospital, who fled the war in Ukraine
“Our children are safe here.” Refugee in France Since February 2022 and the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, Olena is today gynecologist has Provins hospitalwhere she rebuilds her life alongside her three children.
“We thought it would last three to four months, no more. There, it’s been two years… It’s crazy, my life has completely changed,” confides the woman whose husband had to stay in Ukraine.
Before slipping: “Everyone is caring and so much generous…I don’t know enough words in French to say what I feel, so merci ! »
March 2024: end clap for Le Roy Lire, the medieval bookstore in Provins which celebrated its 20 years of activity
After 20 years of activitythe medieval bookstore Le Roy Lire de Provins has closed its doors at spring 2024. In question: the rise in book prices et changing consumption patterns.
“I had the medieval bookstore the most beautiful in France », said Maxime Flon, its manager, as he closed the last chapter of a place which was a true institution in the upper town.
Ali Baba Caveswith sauce Thibaud de Champagne time travel, good dose of culture, all happily sprinkled with a in-depth historical knowledgeof Middle Ages … Le Roy Lire offered no less than 5,000 references who we already miss.
April-May 2024: Tomer Sisley filming in Provins
In April 2024, actor Tomer Sisley was in Provins to shoot an episode of the series Our history of Francebroadcast on October 15 on France 2.
Actor and narratorof the series, the 50-year-old actor took the audience on board in the footsteps of Charlemagne whose coronation took place in the year 800 was recreated in the Saint-Quiriace collegiate church. For the occasion, around forty extras were present.
June-July 2024: in the constituency of Provins, the early legislative elections are fatal to the Republicans, dethroned by the RN
Shock in the provincial political landscape. After being in the hands of Republicans (LR)durant 66 ans the 4e constituency from Seine-et-Marnetoggle for the extreme right .
After coming first in the 1is round the early election on June 30, Julien Limongi (RN) beats the outgoing MP Isabelle Périgault (LR)in the second round of voting, July 7, 2024.
The surprise dissolution of theNational Assembly decreed on the evening of June 9 by Emmanuel Macron, will have had a historic impact: it is the first time that an RN deputy has been elected in the south of Seine-et-Marne.
August 2024: before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the Olympic flame passes to Provins for a historic first!
One week before the start of the Paris 2024 Olympics, the Olympic flame crossed the Seine-et-Marne on Saturday July 202024.
After passing through Fontainebleau , Pontault-Combaultor even Melunshe arrived in Provins at 5 p.m., from where she began her journey through the streets of the medieval city from the Caesar Towerworn by Paralympic medalist Margot Boulet. The Provinoise won bronze in para-rowing a month and a half later.
Place du Châtelramparts, eagles theatertourist office… the historic torch was celebrated by tens of thousands of people!
September 2024: Provins organizes its first Artists’ Fair
From September 21 to October 6, 2024, Provins hosted its first major exhibition dedicated to trades and craftsmen .
For 15 days, the Provins meetings: arts and crafts have gathered more than 30 artisans of the territory, who presented their know-how at the Hôtel de Savigny, but also with merchants in the city!
The objective stated by Séverine Ratier and Sabine Guedamour, creators of the event: “Make talented artisans visible”. See you next year!
October 2024: death of Abdelaziz Barrada, former footballer for OM and Morocco, child of Provins
Sad end of October, in Provins, where the medieval city has mourned the death of “his” footballer,Abdelaziz Barrada, died suddenly on October 24, 2024 at the age of 35 ans.
Passed by Olympique de Marseille and the national selection of Moroccothe former member of the Marie-Curie college sports section will have left an unforgettable memory in his hometown.
“He was entire , kindet generous x. He always remembered where he came from,” those who knew him will confide, moved.
November 2024: the mysterious fatal explosion of a house plunges the town of Saint-Loup-de-Naud into incomprehension
In the calm of the early morning, the explosionwas heard in several surrounding villages. THE November 27, 2024 around 4 a.m., an explosion blew out a house located on rue Serge-Veau, in Saint-Loup-de-Naud, near Provins.
The tragedy, which required the intervention ofaround twenty firefighters (specialists in rescueet clearingdog teams, deminers …) cost the life of the owner of the premises, a 31-year-old woman, and seriously injured her partner.
A month later, the vagueness remainsconcerning the causes of the explosion and the possible presence of traces of explosive material .
And multiple tracks were probed by investigators, such as that of the former owner of the house, who died in 2017 in the unexplained explosion of his car, or that of the former neighbors of the destroyed pavilion, the mystery remains whole.
December 2024: the Intermarché store tests a unique connected trolley in France and Europe
Unique in Europe and tested in the Provins store, a revolutionary connected trolley launched by Intermarché allows you to scan automaticallyyour purchases as you drop them off.
Enough to save time at the checkout. Victim of its success, the test of the innovative trolley was extended at least until the end of June 2025 !
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