“For a day reserved for saints, I find it incredibly alive cemetery!” There are Jokes a young woman with her arms. The same people who, since this weekend, almost all bloom on the graves of France, including those of the region. “I think this is the first year that I see so many people walking around with reflective material buckets, brushes, flowerpots, since last week … this morning, it does not stop! ”
Just steps from his office, posted at the main entrance with its bright yellow vest, watches the comings and goings of visitors. Holder of a day, a member of the association Canal (Assistance return to work) the rest of the time, “relieves people to arm a little too full of flowers,” or those “who have trouble walking.” “Oh no, that I refuse, it’s not my type! “He laughs. It is that paradox or not, it reigns as an air of gaiety in the cemetery of Roubaix, on Tuesday morning. That joke, that short, that “chatting quietly“at the corner of a grave. November 1 is finally an opportunity for many families to honor their deceased relatives but also to be together.
A striking contrast
And then there are the chapels (over 500), impressive gray graves that still bear the names of the largest families who made his fortune in Roubaix industry in the years 1800 – 1900.
Here, cracks, broken tiles or even yard grills sometimes replace pomponettes as an ornament. The few people crossed in the affected paths turn out to be visitors, architecture lovers or just curious. But no issue is in sight. ” Yet there remain but they are discreet when they wear the clothes with reflective tape come,” “last week, the Mulliez were there,” “most family members who are still alive no longer live in Roubaix, many even left France, “we says one between two graves. Strange contrast is between the first cross graves, flowers and colorful, and these, in certain charm but sadly neglected and gray … At the point of becoming the great forgotten of All Saints?