QUIBERVILLE SUR MER CELEBRATES THE HORSE FESTIVAL AND SACREMENT

USPA NEWS - The city of Quiberville organised an annual and sacred feast of the Horse, on two days of celebrations around this equine, with the religious sacrament of horses, demonstrations of chariot races, a medical tournament, Cossack flounces, punctuated country dance and horse activities.

The city of Quiberville organised an annual and sacred feast of the Horse, on two days of celebrations around this equine, with the religious sacrament of horses, demonstrations of chariot races, a horse tournament, Cossack flounces, punctuated by country dance, and of course the horses of fire, who animated this week end at the Hippodrome of Quiberville. The mayor of the city, Jean Francois Bloc, is proud of his annual event, coincided with a special Mass of “St Hubert with its ringers“ following the assassination of the priest Pere Hamel, which had taken place a few days earlier in Saint Etienne du Rouvray on 26 July. JEAN FRANCOIS BLOCK IS THE ECO FRIENDLY MAYOR OF QUIBERVILLE SUR MER FOR 28 YEARS ------------- The Mayor of Quiberville, Jean-François Bloc, was easily re-elected to the presidency of the community of communes, Saâne and Vienna, in April 2014. Thursday evening. He was the only candidate and obtained the majority of votes in the first round, with 44 votes. "I measure the honor given to me by this re-election. I am a man of dialogue and I wish that we work in mutual respect on the big issues that fall to us: the future of inter-municipalities, the business hotel in Bacqueville-en-Caux, the garbage dump, vigilance At the level of SMITVAD, a spatial planning, with the circumvention of Luneray, said Jean-François Bloc. I would also like to pay tribute to Étienne Delarue, the first president for all the work done. "Said the Paris-Normandy newspaper at the time.

AN OUTDOOR MASS WITH RINGERS IS ENDED SYMBOLICALLY BY THE BAPTISM OF A HORSE------------------- A mass was delivered by the priest of the region, in the presence of a hundred believers who followed this Mass in the open air. A small message alludes to the priest Father Hamel murder a few days earlier, by a terrorist at Saint Etienne du Rouvray a few kilometers from Quiberville. The priest does a fatal homage to this farm of the Church. The Supreme decorations based on fresh flowers, have the effigy of the horse and were deposited along the stage to evoke the feast of the horse. The Mass ends with the baptism of a horse symbolically to signify the blessing pronounced by a man of the church in the name of all the horses.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------The mayor of Quiberville Jean Francois Bloc, gives a short speech addressing the hundreds of inhabitants of Quiberville Sur mer and also those coming from the surrounding towns and villages. "I would like to thank all those who have volunteered their time to ensure that this tee is held annually on the same date. More than 80 people, who have been working for several weeks upstream, are preparing this festive event for equipment installations as well as the logistics and collaboration of civil protection, firefighters and security services in place. I am proud to celebrate this festival each year, at your side, because it is also the emblem of our city, and delighted to come and share these festive moments with you and around the horse, so I invite you to come and have a good wine. And now enjoy the grilled barbecues and other specialties of our region " The guests are then invited to taste a giant barbecue, around a table filled with specialties from the region of Normandy: cider, apples, NeufChatel and Camembert cheese, grilled meats, ice cream, and the famous "Normandy tarte". That was an amazing showcase of the famous Normandy's gastronomy.

JEAN FRANCOIS BLOC “THE COUNTRYMAN“, MAYOR OF QUIBERVILLE ENGAGED IN CLEANING THE BEACHES OF NORMNDY--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jean Francois Bloc is the happy mayor of Quiberville, since 1987, and is born himself even here! The man form his own land...That is why he likes to call himself 'The child of the country'. He has now a passionate commitment towards the natural ecosystem and launched and operation of "sweeping" in order to cleaning the coastal beaches of Normandy. He sends whenever he can through the messages at the city hall the "Awareness of the respect of this morning cleaning", which has been resumed every year, for 20 years to clean the pebbles and the back beach. This magnificent beach and articular recedes the out and linking the close to the high school in Dieppe because of the retreat of 30 cm / year, the Falaise. So how can we imagine what will be the beach and coastal territory in 20 years ? wonders Jean Francois Bloc... With Saint Marguerite and Longueuil, alongside Quiberville have their attractive faith relying on the ecological site. The county lives mainly on the tourists coming up from the North wind of Europe, England and the rest of France. We want to anticipate the advance of the sea towards the estuary and the maintenance of the cliffs, as the territory changes profoundly and should change in the right direction so that our children and new generations can continue to benefit from it. I have been doing all this for 28 years. I have been a child of the country and I have to plan over the next few years using the budgets wisely because we cannot afford to make mistakes by sparing the public money to enhance our territory ". Explains Jean Francois Bloc.-------------------------- Jean-François Bloc has become a permanent councillor since March 16, 2016, without an appointment, in the public space of the littoral in Saint-Valery-en-Caux on the 2nd Wednesday Of the month. Quiberville sur ville is a commune (Small county) in the Haute Normandie“ (Seine et Marne department of Normandy) in north-western France at 3h driving from Paris. Two years ago, the Tour de France crossed in "Terre de Caux" on July 9, 2015, for the 6th step in Quiberville, of the most visited cycling tour in the world (between Abille and Le Havre).

A VARIED AND FESTIVE PROGRAM OF THE FESTIVAL OF HORSE------------------------------------------------------------- During a whole weekend, from Saturday morning to Sunday evening, it is the party in Quiberville around the theme of the horse. The program begins with pony rides for the little ones, and winding up incentive for everyone. Then it's the turn of the EQUIFEEL, followed by a medieval tournament. It is a game of jousts from the Middle Ages, reconstructed, by the actors disguised with period costumes and the rules of the time too. A real plunge into history. The cinema horses are then presented during a parade in the circus of the hippodrome. A musical and dance break of "country dance" is offered in front of spectators facing the scene. The music and these folk dances are so dramatic that one thinks oneself in Texas, or Tennessee. After which races of Roman chariots trains by draft horses, take us to another time rather of the Greco Roman Empire. The show is breathtaking, Saturday ends with a dancing evening and a fireworks display. The following day, Sunday, the Mass of St Hubert with the bell ringers, raising Haut Normand, followed by the blessing of the horses, The paratroopers were planned but could not carry out their prowess of the eye, for reasons of rain imminent, so often present in Normandy ... The festivities nonetheless continued with a giant raffle, of the Cossack aerobatics and Marsupilami, which have made their shows. The town of Quiberville ended late, around 9:30 pm, because the sun will soon offer one of the most beautiful sunsets of the Albatre coast of Normandy. It feels like the far-west time as if we are like cowboys, as for recalling the friendly landing of the Americans on the Normandy coast ...70 years ago, to save the French from a war For more information see at www.quibervillesurmer-tourisme.com