Are you going to give my name? Sometimes the city dwellers who left to confine themselves to the provinces have the reflexes of criminals on the run ... Even those who have exiled themselves in due time before March 17, without ever changing their place of life since. If they saw on the social networks, in the local press, some creaky echoes around this exodus, all underline the good reception that their neighbors gave them. For everyone, this “green” retreat in the midst of the Covid-19 epidemic allowed us to ask questions about our ways of living.
Architects Alice and Maxime Jansens and their son Marcello, 6, left their apartment in the 19th arrondissement in Paris on March 16 even before the confinement was announced to go green in the house where Maxime grew up in Cucq (Pas- de-Calais). "Do not see any gift of clairvoyance, sweeps Alice (pronounce" alitché ", in Italian). France followed the same path as Italy, however, with my family in Lombardy I was connected to the epidemic ten days in advance. "
On Monday the 16th, the schools were closed. After hours "working in our T3, while channeling my kindergarten son without access to the outside, I thought it was going to be complicated! She rewinds. Maxime's parents invited the small tribe to take up residence in their homes. Alice and Maxime first declined, for fear of bringing the virus to the grandparents, before remembering the little house at the end of the garden, usually rented. They settled there, without any contact, for the first two weeks.
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Alice keeps repeating: "We have a huge chance, if only to see a garden rather than concrete does a lot of moral good". And access to an exterior for Marcello was the key argument: "From the window, I can watch my little Parisian look for birds or play with earthworms".
"It's my home here"
"So the Parigots, you are bringing us the virus ..." It was with this joke that the neighbors welcomed the Morisson family when they opened the green shutters of their second home in Fouras (Charente-Maritime). "That good child, insists Jean-Luc Morisson. The same people tell us, moreover, when you arrive, it smells of summer . ” This EPS teacher in Paris the year also takes care of the local beach club in July and August. "We opposed the Parisians and the natives, but it's my home here," explains the teacher who doesn't have his tongue in his pocket.
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If there are envious people, Jean-Luc has never heard them, but he nevertheless reports that he was "probably denounced by neighbors". The story goes back several days, for the birthday of a friend who lives in Spain, the whole family posed on the sidewalk in front of the portal in a hitchhiker way, thumbs up and the little cardboard España at the hand. “Half an hour later, we had a police truck in front of the house, but we were all back. My wife and daughter did not fade for hours, ”laughs the father.
"We keep a low profile"
"I started to feel guilty after we arrived, was it reasonable to confine oneself to green? "Testifies Claire Géret, 29 years old. "We keep a low profile, we don't meet anyone," reports the young girl. The one who usually lives in Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne) with her boyfriend "left on a whim" in Larodde (Puy-de-Dôme). They found themselves with "seven friends" not even thirty in a large stone building with a fireplace, board games to hold a seat and woods.
Like a summer camp, but in the middle of a global pandemic: "When my boyfriend was diagnosed with Covid, there we asked ourselves a lot of questions," says Claire. Coming from the Paris region, in the middle of the medical desert, they were able to obtain a consultation by video, the general practitioner recognized all the symptoms, but without the need to hospitalize. "Above all, we didn't want to call the emergency services for nothing."
It was necessary to confine the patient within the house, he even wore a makeshift mask. "A bandana with sanitary napkin," says Claire. After ten days, he is back on his feet. For the young woman, who left with "just a backpack", this retreat far from bars, clothing stores and other urban temptations will even have finished convincing her to consume less!
"I can see myself opening beautiful shops here"
This is a lesson learned by all these "exiled" Parigots. Departed with more or less precipitation, they did very well for forgotten odds and ends, the toy, the business of sports, the sweaters… On the other hand, the Internet which dawdles or which has failures turned out to be a real problem. Especially in Fouras. "I asked for a box before we left Paris, it was not connected until nineteen days later, hell! Groan Jean-Luc Morisson, after days of hardship and D system in Charente-Maritime.
For Sara Maire, this period served as a trigger: "For me, the deconfinement will certainly not be done in Paris," she says. With her companion Camille and their two children, Zadig and Ambroise, she put her luggage in their holiday home in Le Tréport (Seine-Maritime). "My real home, says one who lived in the sixteenth arrondissement of the capital. This is where I want to be buried. Living in Paris for many people is not a choice, but a strategy. When there is no more work, when the children's school is closed, then this tactic is no longer necessary. "
This professional in events has experienced the health crisis hard. His contracts, first linked to Paris Fashion Week and then to the Cannes Festival, were canceled. One of his friends died in the Grand Est, probably a victim of the coronavirus. The couple have since returned the keys to the apartment they rented in Paris. “I can see myself opening beautiful food shops here, plans the hyperactive. This station deserves to be revitalized. You knew it was the first vacation destination for Parisians before the railway line was destroyed. "Bombed," says her son Zadig. Apparently the whole family already knows their Tréport on their fingertips.