“Provencal-style veal stir-fry, lamb’s navarin, couscous, Chinese dishes, Reunion Island or even Beauce… I noted all the menus. It’s been forty-nine meals in a row, “breathes Lucien Huron, still surprised by so many attentions.
Throughout the confinement, he and his neighbor Monique Wankin, both 84 years old, never ceased to feast on breakfasts prepared by … their three neighbors.
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“We had no choice,” smiles the retiree. “From the start of confinement, they passed. They didn’t call us old, but almost, and they said that with the coronavirus, we really shouldn’t get out. For this, they agreed to cook us and deliver us to me and my neighbor, a full meal every noon. Except that I thought it was going to last a week-ten days. In the end, we are almost two months away. It’s huge. I know that, during this confinement, all the caregivers in France did enormous things that deserve to be highlighted, but our neighbors were also fantastic. “
They didn’t call us old, but almost, and they said that we really shouldn’t get out
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Monique Wankin, who worked at the Mail School for the City, adds: “How nice, it was quite a surprise. “
Rue Paul-Sabatier, in the district of La Madeleine in Chartres, between the Carrefour shopping area and the Chartres ring road, “it’s everyone’s home, two or three aperitifs in common per year and the pleasure of exchanging a few words when we cross paths, ”describes the former employee of the Eaton company, in Nogent-le-Phaye, where he manufactured, among other things, truck gearbox parts.
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Retired since 1996, the year the company closed, widowed since 2013, Lucien Huron, who settled here in 1973 like his neighbor, “at a time when the small urbanized area had around twenty pavilions still surrounded by wheat fields “, seems clearly affected by this initiative taken by its three neighbors.
“In what other neighborhood is it happening like here ?? “
“We never ate the same thing because they worked together to take turns preparing the meals. Monique Wankin will not forget the 2020 Easter meal: “We had salmon, leg of lamb, rum baba and even chocolates. All served on a platter. They really spoiled us. “
His neighbor jokes: “Everything was so good that I ended up gaining 2 kilos. “Monique Wankin supports:” Yes, the portions were generous. We often had some left for the evening. In what other neighborhood is it happening like here ?? “
Fifteen young people from the Clos district, in Chartres, serving the inhabitants
But it is said, the two retirees will have their “revenge”: “With Monique, we said that we will mark the occasion to thank them. I don’t know how yet, but we’ll find out. “
Emmanuel Brun
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