Mayor Novelli seeks to lead his troops to the election!

The current mayor of Richelieu encourages his party faithful 

in the Auditoire of the 

cardinal duc's

cité idéale.

p.s. nice box balls, Milady P!

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The T & B's 'vin d'honneur' at the townhall, and a film-set town - empty for once!

Mayor Novelli receives his gift from the T & B Master, David Cole-Adams

the Grande Rue cleared out for aerial drone film photography

Dalek trees cannot climb stairs
but they ARE a bit creeepy....

The Eminence Rouge would have been pleased by your company's visit and the excitement that you all brought to his cité idéale and even the young Abbé Henri Proust 'imself!

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A new agreement about the management of the parc and château

Patrick Gerard and Mayor Novelli sign the agreement

The agreement over the management of the Park by the Community of Communes and the Town of Richelieu was officially signed on Friday in the hall of the Richelieu Museum.

Patrick Gerard, Rector of the Universities of Paris, and Richelieu's Maire Novelli have finalized the binding agreements which endure for a period of thirty years; the Sorbonne remains as owner, in co-operation with with both the two local authorities, the Conseil Général of the Départment of Indre-et-Loire (who until recently covered the maintenance costs), and the Town and Communes of Richelieu. The Town & Communes will now take on the responsibility for these costs, as the Conseil Général has now ceased financial contributions - from the end of  year 2012.  It had shouldered these since former arrangements made in 2005.

This conclusion ends the worrying uncertainty about the future of the château de Richelieu and parc's historic building complex, which are inseparable from the history of the town of Richelieu and the history of the whole district.

Patrick Gerard said that the Universities of Paris no longer wished to bear a financial burden that they think is incompatible with their current teaching activities. So they had initially planned to sell the property, as has been done recently with another château in the département of Sarthe.

It was not found financially feasible for the Cité and the Community de Communes to fully acquire this important and historic area from the Sorbonne. The compromise that has finally been found helps keep the parc and château  in the interests of the entire 'Pays de Richelieu'. Although the full annual bill will exceed 100,000 € - costs related to the fact that the staff remain in place - it will be necessary to find partners and new users of the site to find a new fiscal balance.

For Hervé Novelli, this outcome is: "Both an ending and a beginning", which avoids a  split between the population and it's park, while remaining true to the spirit of the Cardinal.

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La convention de reprise de la gestion du Parc par la communauté de communes et par la commune a été officiellement signée vendredi à la salle du Musée. Patrick Gérard, Recteur des Universités de Paris et Hervé Novelli ont finalisé les accords liant pour une durée de trente ans, la Sorbonne propriétaire des lieux, aux deux collectivités locales. Ces dernières se substituent ainsi au Conseil Général qui cesse dès la fin de cette année de participer aux frais d'entretien comme il le faisait depuis 2005.Cette conclusion met fin aux incertitudes concernant le devenir de l'ensemble immobilier historique, indissociable de l'histoire de la ville de Richelieu et de tout le canton. Patrick Gérard a rappelé que les Universités parisiennes ne souhaitaient plus assumer une charge financière incompatible avec leur activité d'enseignement. Elles envisagent donc de vendre la célèbre propriété comme cela a été fait récemment dans la Sarthe pour un château. Il n'était pas possible financièrement pour la ville et la communauté de communes de faire l'acquisition de cet important domaine. Le compromis finalement trouvé permet de le conserver dans l'intérêt de tout le Pays de Richelieu. Même si la facture annuelle dépassera les 100.000 euros (frais liés au fait que le personnel reste en place) Il va donc falloir trouver avec les partenaires utilisateurs du site, un moyen d'équilibrer. Pour Hervé Novelli, ce dénouement est : « A la fois un épilogue et un commencement »qui évite la scission entre la population et son Parc tout en restant fidèle à l'esprit du Cardinal.

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from Nouvelle Republique

Our Mayor - no longer a secretary of state after Sarko's reshuffle

With the reshuffle of the cabinet of President Sarkozy on 14 November 2010, our Maire, 

M. Hervé Novelli, now only the

found himself out of a post.  He remains a member of parliament and of course, much the most significant for us,

Mayor of Richelieu.

It is not easy to remain at the pinnacle of power in the centralised French state.  The more impressive that Armand Jean cardinal duc de Richelieu stayed at this sharp pinnacle for more than twenty years, albeit in the seventeenth century.  But not so bad either for M. Novelli to be compared with his great predecessor.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8580276.stm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/5624611/Sarkozy-appoints-Mitterrand-nephew-to-cabinet.html

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/archive/alphaOrder/view.do?language=EN&id=4357

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hervé_Novelli

http://www.herve-novelli.com/

http://www.concurrences.com/cv.php3?id_auteur=1688&lang=fr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/novelli-2010/

http://www.ville-richelieu.fr/

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