In Saint-Raphaël, associations receiving subsidies obliged to attend patriotic ceremonies. Each year, the city grants a total of more than two million euros to nearly a hundred associations with the most diverse activities.
In return, their leaders must show their presence on May 8 (victory of 1945), August 15 (landing in Provence in 1944 of allied troops against the Nazis), November 11 (armistice of 1918), July 14 (celebration national) and April 29 (remembrance of the victims of deportation)