4 May 2022

Le Mur tombé du ciel #9: Aimé Delrue



Aimé Delrue – known as the (proto-)'Coluche nantais' – arrived in Nantes in 1918. He created La fête du Lait-de-Mai for the poor, of which the cow in the mural is a symbol. He was a lover of Muscadet, a bottle of which he has in his hand on the mural. The festival lasted until 1957, three years before his death. Curiously, an earlier example of this mural, before it was restored, shows Delrue with his eternal pipe: obviously a sad example of political correctness, like the effacing of Jacques Tati's pipe in adverts for Mon oncle. Which planet are we on?

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