2023-07-02 14:30:47
NARRATIVE – For several months, CLAP, the pétanque club of Montmartre, has been fighting to stay on the ground it has occupied since 1971. This was without taking into account the maneuvers of the mayor of Paris.
It is to believe that names are predestined: the Passage of the Witch ended up attracting the bad fate of Carabosse. Like all tales, that of CLAP had however started well: “Once upon a time in Montmartre, a small kingdom of greenery and peace, nestled between the rich avenue Junot and the popular rue Lepic, where bowlers and lovers of the Butte passed happy days. No trade had a gable on what was always called the Maquis de Montmartre. You could only hear the mocking blackbirds, the laughter of the children and the clash of the balls on the sandy tracks. But so much happiness, so many bucolic delights ended up making the Fairy Carabosse jealous. She decided to drive out its occupants. »
This is how Anne Hidalgo gave the order, on February 1, to Carine Saloff-Coste, director of green spaces, to ask the Pétanque club and its three hundred members, who had been entrusted with the premises in 1971 , to decamp at the end of the month. Despite some resistance…
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