For this third and final day, first a correction in the form of a mea culpa: contrary to what my first two headline photos might have suggested, there are not only female volunteers in Mouans but also men. Proof is in the image above.
Volunteer and sutler fair, Mouans-Sartoux is, of course—and this is its primary vocation—the fair for readers. I can attest: they are numerous and motivated (the entrance fee is—modestly—charged). Thus, I saw women and men from very different generations, styles, and social conditions come to me. Politically, these encounters can be amusing: in just five minutes on the clock, I signed Maria for a deputy mayor of Nice and then Fragments for a highly invested activist of the Socialist Party. It is true that the previous day I had done the same for a “Marcher” (both literally and figuratively) well known in the Nice theater circles.
It was also a reunion with many former students, voters eager for information on upcoming elections, actors and artists, former and new colleagues, and simply anonymous but loyal readers, as well as friends like the flamboyant Kaigl family. In short, a true joy that my neighbor Aurelie Filipetti would only experience for… thirty minutes. Too bad for her.
Patrick Mottard
