2023-09-13 05:30:17
Plic, ploc, bam… In the sultry heat of the end of summer, the steel balls fly towards the targets placed about ten meters away, provoking exclamations of joy or chagrin. At 6:30 p.m., in shorts and sneakers or in dresses and heels, around twenty women invaded half of the courts to rehearse their ranges. This September 6 marks the resumption of training for the women of the Club Lepic Abbesses Pétanque (CLAP), on the Butte Montmartre, in the 18th arrondissement. Their goal this season? “Become champions of Paris. »
On the rest of this plot of almost 800 square meters, nestled in the Passage de la Sorcière, which connects Avenue Junot to Rue Lepic, jousts are organized between craftsmen, artists, students, business leaders, traders. , job seekers, liberal professions or retirees… On iron tables and wooden benches, card games and small talk take place in the shade of century-old trees. In the brick and wood “clubhouse”, Jojo, a colorful septuagenarian, informs a young retiree ready to sign her first license.
The grounds of the Club Lepic Abbesses Pétanque (CLAP), in Paris, September 2, 2023. In the background, windows of the Hameau des artistes, which overlook the CLAP grounds. MARTYNA PAWLAK FOR “THE WORLD”
Maxime Liogier, journalist, member and communicator of the club, insists on CLAP’s attachment to inclusion, while a “between ourselves” inherited from the time of its creation, in the 1970s, by traders and personalities from La Butte have long been criticized for it. « It has changed a lot, he assures. There are young people, old people, rich people, or not. CLAP is a space for diversity and social bonding. »
“The dice were loaded”
Despite this displayed ecumenism, the club, located on the last vestige of the “maquis” of Montmartre, a classified site since 1991, is going through a zone of turbulence. « CLAP en danger ! », indicates a large calico. For the largest pétanque club in Paris and the leading women’s club in France in terms of licensees (287 members including 97 women), the land – which it has occupied for free without rights or titles since 1971 – has become a “zone to defend “.
At the beginning of July, following a call for expressions of competing interest (AMIC) whose process began in September 2022, the Paris Council awarded, for twelve years and against an annual fee of 60,000 euros excluding tax, a public domain occupation agreement (CODP) to Oscar Comtet, general director and owner of theMontmartre mansion (HPM), a contiguous luxury establishment, through Fremosc, a family company.
Women licensed from the Lepic Abbesses Pétanque Club, in Paris, September 2, 2023. In the background, the Montmartre mansion. MARTYNA PAWLAK FOR “THE WORLD”
Increase in green spaces in open ground by 320 square meters, reintroduction of two hundred plant species, free opening to the public and schools for educational workshops, pilates, tai chi chuan and yoga classes, short circuit organic market … Listing the themes dear to the Parisian executive, his proposal was then dubbed as “the best bidder” by Olivia Polski, the rapporteur of the deliberation and deputy (PS) in charge of commerce at Paris City Hall. She had greeted a “financial model guaranteeing the sustainability of public green space”.
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