VOUS ETES TOUTES ET TOUS IVITES A PARTICIPER CE JEUDI 8 MAI :AU 80ème ANNIVERSAIRE DE LA LIBÉRATION ET DE L’ARMISTICE DE LA SECONDE GUERRE MONDIALE.THURSDAY 8 MAY: 80th ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION AND THE ARMISTICE OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
10.15am & 10.30am: LAYING OF WREATHS AT THE MEMORIALS FOR THE MAQUISARDS – at La Vialle and La Boissonnie
10.45am: LAYING OF WREATH IN MEMORY OF ARNAUD BELTRAME at the Parvis de la Mairie
10.55am: DEPARTURE OF THE PROCESSION from the Mairie to the Monument aux Morts (War Memorial)
11am: Arrival at the Monument aux Morts
Programme of the ceremony:
Thanking the two teachers of the Georges Guingouin School for their work with the school pupils.
Thanking the Ste Claire Choir and Sébastian Sanchez-Giraldo, the choirmaster, as well as the president Edith Noble.
Thanking the council’s personnel for the organisation of the ceremony and the drinks at the village hall.
- Presentation of the morning’s programme by the Mayor
- Le Chant des Partisans (dedicated to the Maquisards of Mont Gargan by the Chorale Ste Claire)
- Laying of wreaths by the municipality and the commune’s school Georges GUINGOUIN
- Minute of silence with the Sonnerie aux Morts
- Reading of the message from the UFAC by one of the school pupils
- Reading of Paul Eluard’s poem ‘J’écris ton nom liberté’ by the school children
- Singing ‘Ode to Joy’ the European hymn, Beethoven’s 9th (dedicated to the refugees of Offendorf, who came to La Croisille, by the Chorale Ste Claire)
- Message from the Mayor of La Croisille to the public
- Closure of the ceremony with La Marseillaise (Chorale Ste Claire)
11.20am CONCERT BY THE CHORALE SAINTE CLAIRE led by the director of the choir Sébastian SANCHEZ GIRALDO
– Le Chant des Marais (dedicated to Thérese MENOT, escapee of the camp at Borgermoor)
– Oradour (dedicated to the martyrs of Oradour sur Glane)
– Bella Ciao (song of the Italian Resistance)
– In the Mood
– Over the Rainbow (two pieces of American music from the Liberation)
– Imagine (by John Lennon)
– and to finish, Stand By Me (a taster of what is to come from Vigon, a legend of soul music, who will be at our village festival in August)
11.30am Vin d’honneur (drinks) offered by the municipality at the Salle des Fetes.