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MARCIAC: THE SHADOW OF THE HOUSE ON BLOCKHAUS "AUTHENTIC

Shooting of "artwork" that cost us nothing. (as mayor)

Above: from the gardens of Notre Dame, Tourdun hills disappeared behind the concrete fortress. Much to the chagrin of the riparian owners of Notre Dame.

Bottom: the steeple, that of the second church, the Augustinian monastery, and his new neighbor, blokhaus.

The builders of the mansion had planned a major expansion in Marciac, on the road to St Jacques de Compostela: they were wrong, but the building as the church St Pierre, remains eternally beautiful, and the two monuments, including the two towers we discovered that we admired and for miles around, since our childhood, with their sleek lines, pointing to the sky, heart of the village, well, this cultural heritage, emotional and sacred, which we are deeply attached, we will now have a distorted image, slaughtered to satisfy an insatiable thirst for media attention, without concern that this ancient heritage duty commanded maintain its integrity.

Appear ! Satisfy an ego which we oversize fees. Fulfill the desires of wealthy tourists who do not care much of the treasures of Marciac. Then receive the applause of recognition.

But every summer we leave their garbage, vile smell of piss in the lower lane, dirt in all its forms: enough to walk, to open their eyes, pinching the nostrils.

And I do not forgive the silence of the mayor, when the crosses of graves, including that of my parents were smashed at the cemetery. And I wrote to express my anger, because we were not warned. No answer .... But my comments today deals with this horrible house, even should she be covered with wood. Besides he said that throughout the school - which we all saw scroll-would be demolished to allow a parking area, I hope it's just a bad joke ...

The construction of the concrete cube built adjacent gems of our architectural design is a disaster, a mole planted on a clean face, a huge tumor that revolt those who speak other than free Champagne in front of annual vows, a blockhouse sinister. Blockhouse! Is the word that comes around. A spot for all the reasons cited above, but also for others. Some citizens, for example, do not be afraid to denounce the huge cost of an operation that in addition to disfigure Marciac, is a financial gulf which would have gone well the taxpayers at this time of crisis (which will be long very long, despite the assurances of the prophets bad politicians) is an insult to those who live hard, as if Marciac was a village rich rich only. Caress the spirit and legendary charm of Gascony in the grain, as the sign on to the tourist office is an illustration, can lull some naive, but the rude awakening will power all. Besides the permanent disfigurement of the image of wealth, and when money is short everywhere that the difficulties to live in homes are increasing more and more as retirees in the most modest, unemployment is rising dangerously, that the poor are getting poorer, heavily indebted, that relief needs explode, such a prestige operation was neither necessary nor reasonable, as well as the mayor says, it will be very costly to the taxpayer Marciac, "the money from the Europe "is not a gift angel fallen from heaven, he comes from the" boxes "of Europe, therefore the tax France, the Gers and therefore also of the pockets of Marciac.

YES: how and who could authorize the construction of any such horror in a few meters of concrete monuments are the churches, while, to build a traditional house beyond the parapet, at five or six hundred yards of two monuments, I had to go to the "Buildings of France", those funny guards protecting monuments, which multiply the harassment of ordinary citizens, but a blind eye to abuses and horrors indulge with impunity politicians right or left.

Because while the ugly elected built blokhaus together unmolested, that means that require the typical person like me who had built his house of residence:

-your new home, tile canal, the need for recovery (!)

scraped plaster-end, your stone-

small window panes

portal wood garage

-no shutters on the windows ......

And in keeping.

My village was beautiful! Until the soul Gascon is confiscated for the benefit of a commercial sign, to disappear under the celebrity fake nail! But it seems that we're very fortunate, since we receive a VIP in the bathtubs of this theater. Of "verry important persons" which is repeated in the media connected. It was therefore necessary Marciac stands out: it will be done with this room designed for concerts, certainly, but with that little extra niche for the rich. In Andalusia, there are also VIP: they colonized the Costa Brava. Ask what they think Andalusians.

Was it necessary to erase EVERYTHING that was Marciac its secular image?

Place: all upside down. The image of the convent Augustinians? Escagassée. There were public laundry, on Bidzègue on the sludge, and the stream that flows into the Laus, in the end "Carrerot" evidence of a past not so long ago when our mothers were rinsing the "bugado" , amid laughter and gossip published, or whispered secrets, and between each other, and colorful images of the live album of our heritage, now extinct, but which deserved to be preserved and restored. On the contrary: deleted! As the hunt for the collective memory! On what? Andre Muller, creator of the festival, would certainly not see things this angle. Marciac has no boules, no hall worthy of the name. There is no dentist or veterinarian. No laboratory. No deposit of materials should be run in Placentia, Mirande, or Maubourguet to find what is needed for construction. For two or three months, the sports ground is also confiscated impractical. Trade garden that boasts communal your website? Friendship for working there, better not spread.

But Marciac has a huge room for its jazz concerts. With his vip we so need to develop the local economy. It is the desire May a (t) re who is obeyed quite-too-easily. Submit without a word choices too costly? A feeling, a spirit, that has nothing to do with the pride of Gascony and charming villages. Choices that do not taste of disgruntled citizens of this policy of prestige! The village confiscated, squatted, dirty, over 30 days, then karchérisé - erosion of squares and sidewalk repair, financial and environmental cost therefore, so taxes - but it was not enough: it is now disfigured. But ah! Marciac is known "worldwide"! And that, it fills us with joy ....

It was a time when there was no need to write flattering slogans on a placard in order to appreciate the charm of Marciac, but these words will make me do raccoleurs not tarnished the image of this village "typical" so dear to my heart Gascon I, who was born here in "Houghton Mill" on the sludge used in this authentic village, until the merchants ran across not seize it, and that 'they behave with the media merchants of wind, and tourists, as in a huge zoo.

Pierre CAUMONT