The weather was very nice that day.
The weather is always very nice here.
Except when it rains.
Perched on a balcony of the town hall, facing the Virgin of Our Lady of the Guard who blessed her with her eyes, Vanessa Carlone began her speech by paraphrasing a famous phrase from Voltaire:
"There is a pact twenty-six centuries old (1) between the greatness of Marseille and the freedom of the world. ”
Thunderous applause.
After a night of jubilation, at least one hundred and fifty thousand people had invaded the Old Port and its surroundings to listen to the president of the “Free Marseille” collective declare, with tears in their eyes, the independence of the second city in France.
It is an understatement to say that Vanessa Carlone had been overwhelmed by events.
French teacher at the Lycée Thiers, much appreciated by her students, this thirty-something with green eyes and a continually astonished air, had started the movement by publishing in the local press an article in favor of "the self-determination of the people of Marseille."
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