Rose festival Saturday, May 29, 2010
in honor of Jules Gravereaux
founder of the Roseraie de L'Haÿ-les-Roses - Val de Marne

On the occasion of the Feast of the Rose in the rose garden of L'Hay les Roses (Val de Marne), the bust of Jules Gravereaux, founder of this Rose Garden was inaugurated at a ceremony attended by the descendants of this famous collector of roses.

After the ceremony and a huge picnic in the regional park of the Rose Garden, a dance performance took place under the astonished eyes of the public!

Dance companies by Carole Hacker, Marie-Pierre Remy and Nicole Lefebvre have evolved, each in their style, around the basin of the Rose Garden. The event was breathed new life to splendid festivals and shows bright introduced to the Belle Epoque, by Jules Gravereaux.

Throughout the day, the painters of the Cercle L'Haÿssiens des Arts, straw hat on her head, set up their easels in the among of the roses.

In the Rose Garden, surrounded by roses, speeches by Sophie Hasquenoph, Deputy Mayor delegated the duty to remember and veterans, and by Jean-Luc Marret (on right), descendant of Jules Gravereaux.

Sophie Hasquenoph is provide by Jean Luc Marret a medal bearing the likeness of Jules Gravereaux.

Dance companies by Carole Hacker, Marie-Pierre Remy and Nicole Lefebvre have evolved into the "Théâtre de la Rose or Theatre de Verdure set up in 1906."

Painter of the Cercle l'Haÿssien des Arts having placed his easel among the roses.