“Cognac was Francis Hardy, and Francis Hardy was Cognac. »A phrase, repeated, shared and combined with the present tense, Tuesday March 16 in the morning, at a time when the City paid homage to the one who was its mayor, from 1979 to 2001, and who passed away on Thursday March 11 in the age of 97. In front of nearly 150 people gathered on the forecourt of the town hall, Morgan Berger, the current mayor, surrounded by Jérôme Mouhot and Michel Gourinchas, his predecessors, retraced the career of “builder” of Francis Hardy “to whom Cognac must so much ”. Citing haphazardly the restoration of the former Benedictine cloister, the sanitation network, the creation of the La Salamandre convention center, the repair of old Cognac, the pedestrianization of the rue d’Angoulême, the redevelopment of numerous squares. ..
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