Pierre Laforgue passed away on Thursday February 3 at the age of 90. All those who wanted to pay him a last tribute were there. Some were able to take their seats in the lower Saint-Vincent church and follow the mass celebrated by Father Martin Gabet, others had to wait until the end of the ceremony to listen, in respectful silence, to the praise given to the deceased. by the mayor, José Montessino who first traced the main stages of his life. Pierre was born on December 2, 1931 in Corbère-les-Cabanes. From his grandfather, a shepherd in Py and from his shepherd father in Corbère, he received lessons in courage and righteousness, love of nature too. At 13, he left school to do an apprenticeship as a butcher in Perpignan. Very young, he worked as an employee in Trouillas then in Prades with Joachim Solère, a butcher where he reinforced his taste for the trade. He then marries, in Eus, Jeannette Calmon and thus enters a family with which he will create very strong ties. From their union, the twins Francis and Guy were born on April 13, 1958. With his wife, he opened a butcher’s shop in Vinça that they would run for 40 years. And what do we often talk about? Of rugby, of course because Pierre is passionate, first quinziste in Millas and Prades then treiziste when the virus takes him, a virus which he will transmit to his sons Guy and Francis. Both will have an extraordinary rugby career in the world of rugby league. Pierre is the taste for a job well done, the passion for rugby but also the unconditional love of nature. He liked to set off with his beagles and his rifle to hunt rabbits, not to be proud of his catches but to be in contact with nature, with this Catalan land in which he felt good and whose secrets he knew: picking mushrooms and coscolls… “Yes, Peteradds the mayor, of course you will be missed by our village, but the one who will miss you the most is of course your wife Jeannette, this faithful wife who has always been there when you doubted, the one who has always followed you in your choices , the one who loves you since you first met. Your sons will have to follow the secret paths that lead to the riches of nature without you, your grandchildren will always remember the holidays spent with you and Jeannette with their own children because you were with her the cement of this large family. To you, Jeannette, to you Guy and Francis and to your wives, to you his grandchildren, to you his great-grandchildren, to you his family and to you his friends, in my name and in the name of the municipal council I Allow me to send our deepest condolences.”
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