The Saint-Antoine winter fair looked gray

Only a few brave people, well covered, braved the weather. FREE NOON – Eva Bonnet-Gonnet

The Saint-Antoine fair fell apart a bit this Wednesday, January 17. Unlike the few customers who walked the aisles of the clearance sale early in the morning, the good weather was not there. Rain and gray skies weighed down the determination of certain merchants, who preferred not to travel, and also the Alesian customers, who fled the cold and humidity.

"The weather has discouraged more than one", notes François Bernard, manager at the fairs and markets department. "The fairgrounds, who have the appropriate equipment to cover their merchandise, around fifty came. This is a figure that corresponds to previous years, explains the latter. "It is the local traders, who present their stands in front of their shops, who were absent from the fair. There were only ten, or even fifteen. Much less than last year.

This disappointment comes a few months after the cancellation of the Saint-Barthélemy fair, which was impossible to maintain due to the heatwave.