Whether they are responsible for associations, sportsmen, researchers, defenders of heritage, actors in the area, in matters of health, justice or development, these twelve Euréliens (six men and six women, from all regions) have all distinguished themselves , in 2021, through their actions, their exploits, their commitment, their courage.
In our view, all of them deserve the title of Eurélian or Eurélienne of the year. But now it’s up to you, readers of The Republican Echo, to choose, by voting for the one who most deserves, in your eyes, this distinction. It is up to you to designate the Eurélienne or the Eurélien of the year which you can discover below.
Ensuite, it’s up to you to vote, using the form below, and by Friday, December 31, 6 p.m.
Lisa, 9 years old, the animal fairy, wins the title of “Eurélienne of the year 2020”
Julie Capillery: a fighter against genetic diseases, in Chérisy
Instead of locking herself in the grief caused by the death of a brother, carried away at the age of 30 by a genetic disease, Julie Capillery, a native of Dreux, is more in humanitarian action, attached to making a contribution to the vast edifice. of the fight against myopathies. A BTS Anabiotec student (Agricultural, biological and biotechnological analyzes) at Anet high school, she is a work-study student at the Généthon d’Evry (Essonne), where the heart of myopathy research beats. For the Telethon, we owe Julie the most original initiative: the organization of an auction of personal items of stars of the cinema and the small screen. One sale brought in nearly € 17,000.
Julie Capillery, from Dreux, at the initiative of an auction, with donations from stars, for the benefit of the Telethon
Pascal Ory: the Chartrain elected to the French Academy
It’s not every day that a Chartrain enters the Académie française. Since March 4, Pascal Ory has been elected to chair number 32, replacing the writer François Weyergans. At 72 years old, this professor and researcher studies a wide variety of subjects such as comics, tattoos and cancel culture. His new essay, published this fall by Gallimard, deals with anti-Semitism. In 2022, it should finally make its entry into the prestigious Dome of the Immortals.
An inhabitant of Chartres at the French Academy: the historian Pascal Ory inherits the chair N ° 32
Stéphane Bern: Mr. heritage is rooted in the Perche
At the end of the year, Stéphane Bern decided to leave Paris where life had become unbearable for him. The defender of heritage and host of the program Secrets d’histoire sold his Parisian apartment to live, full time, in Thiron-Gardais, in the royal and military college, bought in 2013, for which he had a real blow of heart and where, he created a museum. Since then, the journalist feels “happier in the Perche than in Paris”. He is teeming with projects for his adopted village, his museum and intends to invest more in the promotion of Perche.
premium Stéphane Bern has decided to leave Paris to live in Thiron-Gardais in the Perche
Valentin Porte, de Toury, the owner of French handball
Valentin Porte, the handball player from Toury, had been waiting for this moment for five years. Five long years of mulling over the lost final of the Olympic Games in Rio (2018) against the “best enemies” of French handball, the formidable Danes. At 31, Valentin Porte has managed, with this great generation of internationals, to rectify the situation, to bring Olympic gold back to the home of French handball which already has two acquired in Beijing (2008) and London (2012) . The right winger in selection, right back in club, in Montpellier, Porte is one of the captains of French handball, he also wears the captain’s armband as well in club as in selection.
Valentin Porte, his gymnasium, in Toury, his Olympic gold medal and his number 28
Christine Picard: territorial coordinator of vaccination in Dreux
She is the most familiar face of the Dreux vaccination center opened on January 18, 2021. Christine Picard never lets fatigue erase her smile and her energy. His very black hair, his determined step, are part of the landscape of the fight against the covid. The deputy director of the Dreux hospital was seconded to oversee the organization of vaccination in Dreux. Her experience as a nurse in neonatal resuscitation “where the slightest error can be fatal”; her rigor as a top-level ex-sportswoman allows her to hold this enormous vessel of a vaccinodrome where up to 1,800 doses have been injected per day. Rigorous, reassuring, she is on the front lines every day of the week, often weekends and holidays.
More than 200 people vaccinated on All Saints Day in Dreux
Claude Bellessort, the savior of small businesses in the new town of Arrou
In Arrou, Claude Bellessort is the man of the year, it is undeniable. At 66, the former business manager of Arrou saved three businesses in his village. “Each time, explains the person concerned, the idea was to identify a buyer and buy back the premises to facilitate the takeover.” An approach that he made successively with the village bar, which went out of business in 2016, then the bakery, a few months later, and finally the hairdressing salon. In total, its investment amounts to 500,000 euros. “This good Samaritan” as the mayor of the new town of Arrou, Franck Marchand likes to call him, has not finished with his projects. He wants to create a think tank to develop the artisanal area of Arrou.
premium A resident of the new town of Arrou saved three businesses in his village
Séraphine Okemba, in Vernouillet: Paris 2024 goal in rugby sevens
Voted best player of the France team in 2021, the Vernolitaine played a leading role in the historic course of the Bleues this summer at the Tokyo Olympic Games, with a silver medal at the finish. As powerful as she is fast, the former Saracens (England) player, now licensed in Lyon, scored five tries in Japan, including two in the quarterfinals and one in the half. At 26, the one who plans to become a life coach, is now focused on another goal: the Paris Olympics, in two and a half years.
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Séraphine Okemba, rugby sevens champion, visiting the Rotrou high school in Dreux
Alireza Firouzja, the world n ° 2 in chess in Chartres
The performance is unique in the annals of the discipline. Never before has a player so young exceeded 2,800 points in the Elo rankings, a barometer of excellence in chess. This feat was achieved by Chartrain Alireza Firouzja, just 18, during the European Chess Championships on November 21. Unbeaten during the competition (seven wins, two draws), the member of C’Chartres Echecs immediately reached second place in the world in the discipline. Qualified for the Candidates tournament in 2022, he could, in case of victory, contest the world title with the Norwegian Magnus Carlsen.
The prodigy of Chartres, Alireza Firouzja, becomes world n ° 2 in chess at only 18 years old!
Philippe Qunitais, the king of petanque bows out
Philippe Quintais said goodbye to the French team, on November 21, on a last success with his partners at the world triplet championships, in Santa Susanna (Spain). The 53-year-old Hanchois honored his last selection in blue in Catalonia, leaving in his wake a track record marked by 17 world titles (from 1991 to 2021) and a course to make the greats pale. The story of a child who came to pétanque by default, who trained alone after school with white and black balls, and reached the top of his discipline.
Philippe Quintais, de Hanches, crowned world champion
Michelle Métayer, the good fairy of Amilly of the left behind on all fours
Michèle Métayer, president of the SPA Les Acacias refuge, in Amilly, has been for many years the soul of this Noah’s ark, where the excluded from the canine and feline gentee fail, wanted and then repudiated. Mobilized almost seven days a week, from administrative tasks to cleaning the boxes, Michèle Métayer has redoubled her efforts this year, due to the health context, conducive to adoptions, during confinements, and to abandonments immediately afterwards. This summer, Les Acacias recorded 20% more dropouts. Michèle Métayer, she has not given up, pushing back the walls of a refuge where the well-being and the future of the animals received remain, Covid or not, her priority.
Already full, the Refuge SPA de Chartres Eure-et-Loir continues to take in many cats
Sara Benzohra, a face in Chartres, to say no to violence against women
At the Chartres judicial court, this deputy prosecutor, who arrived in the jurisdiction in 2020, the year of the Grenelle: domestic violence, has in her portfolio of missions the charge of leading one of the priority projects identified by the prosecution. de Chartres: the fight against violence: intrafamilial, which is characterized, in more than 80% of cases, by violence against women. At the heart of this fashionable fight; zero “.” zero tolerance “, this magistrate specializing in domestic violence embodies the face of a justice: which engages, hand in hand, with the actors of the associative field, so that all are recognized and that all cease. violence against women.
premium Domestic violence: repression is increasing in Eure-et-Loir
Nadia Péanne, the first “super-nurse” of Eure-et-Loir
This young woman is the “breath of fresh air” of the diabetology-endocrinology department of the Hospitals of Chartres, according to the management of the establishment. The first advanced practice nurse (IPA) in Eure-et-Loir, Nadia Péanne relieves the doctors in the service of some of their tasks, such as monitoring patients or ordering examinations. In this department where medical demography is at half mast, it is all the improvement of the territorial network, in terms of healthcare offer, that this super nurse symbolizes, who participates in her own way, on a daily basis, in pushing back the medical desert by Eure-et-Loir.
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A “super-nurse” in the diabetology department of Chartres Hospitals
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