Sale of Chateau d’Artagnan: Yves Claude, CEO of Auchan Retail, wins bid

This is the end of a multi-year series, which has become particularly lively in recent weeks. The disillusionment also ended for the Autor de d’Artagnan Association, chaired by the mayor of Vic-Fazancec Barbara Neto, and which brought together many communities (d’Artagnan en Fazensac, department, region, community of state). As a reminder, the project was to create a space dedicated to musketeers around the castle of Castelmore, where d’Artagnan Born in early 17^E century

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The Land Development and Rural Establishment Company (SAFER), responsible for the sale of the house owned by Jeanine Espy (84 years old), had a keen interest in the project. a First Commission technology was However gave an adverse opinion last December, Auchan Retail CEO Yves Claude favors a private buyer’s offer. Far from resigning, the community of d’Artagnan en Fazensac immediately filed an appeal to try to stay in the race. Lupiac, the birthplace of the hero of Alexandre Dumas, during a rally planned for this Saturday, January 20, the elected officials of many Gers also stepped forward to defend the public project to mobilize the population. in vain

“We should note this and respect the decision”

Safer ultimately did not respond to the appeal, as confirmed by Barbara Neto in a press release published this Friday. “In light of the latest exchange and context, we must face the facts: d’Artagnan and the King’s Musketeers Museocenic project, as we envisioned it at Castelmore Castle, will not see the light of day. Kindly appeal that the community of the community of Artagnan en Fezensac It will not be followed. We must take note and respect the decision. Now it is up to us to close this chapter. And collectively open a new page. In this regard, the meeting held on Tomorrow (Saturday) in Lupiak is therefore no longer necessary.”

The mayor of Vic-Fazancec still wants to thank “all the members of the Autore d’Artagnan Association who created and carried out this project with him”, “as well as the almost 200 elected officials who rallied to sustain us.” She continues: “I am delighted with the momentum that has been created around the promotion of d’Artagnan’s image in our department, and I have no doubt that we will all be eager, together, to write, very quickly, the rest of the adventure.”

Yves Cloud and his private project therefore win the day. Auch Retail’s CEO was moved during the week by “serious misgivings about (his) project and (his) person, and assured that he wanted to “restore his letters of nobility” by opening Castlemore Castle to the public.”I want to highlight the history of these places, He wrote in a letter to France 2. the story of dD’Artagnan is of Gersois and French and does not belong to any person, nor for that matter to any community or to serve any political project.” Safe will therefore prove him right.