The cartoons were taken out of the center for the occasion. We see a “Jupiterian” President Emmanuel Macron deciding alone on the future of the press cartoon house. A choice that continues to make people talk. “The President preferred Jacobin conformity”, hammered the cartoonist Placide of the France Cartoon association at the podium in front of 200 demonstrators, including many elected officials and professionals in the profession.
Jean-Louis Savignac, retired draftsman, was not surprised by the choice of the head of state: “It is in line with what others are doing, namely desertifying the countryside… This is also the case in the field of health or administration.”
“We are disappointed but not defeated”
However, the game is not over for Saint-Just-le-Martel. The international house is now forgotten, volunteers and elected officials now want recover subsidies to develop the center. It was a promise from the Head of State after announcing that Paris would be chosen, he declared: “I know the disappointment of some provincial towns but we will have large-scale alternative cultural projects”
“I’m like Saint-Thomas. I only believe what I see”, smiles the mayor of Saint-Just-le-Martel, Joël Garestier. “We are going to meet a close adviser to the Elysée in the coming weeks. We have very big projects to present and we intend to obtain results.”
Among these projects, there is in particular the hiring of employees for the center in particular to digitize the immense stock of more than 40,000 caricatures, drawings given by hundreds of cartoonists from around the world.