Already canceled last year due to Covid-19, the 2022 edition is also canceled. No epidemics this year, but the desire to put an end to a traditional fair “that no longer existed”, according to relatives of the municipality of Chartres. “The decision was made by the city last year. Many merchants from other parts competed with the merchants of the agglomeration, this was not the aim of the fair. “The sellers had become dealers of worthless copies,” says another source.
Celebrating local businesses
No final decision has been made for the following years.
“We would like to reclaim this holiday by putting more local traders in the foreground”, we slip from the side of the town hall.
Contacted, Juliette Pichot, president of Vitrines C’Chartres hopes that “the local Black Friday (Sunday 27 November) compensates for the turnover generated during Saint-André”.
The municipality cancels the Saint-André fair in Chartres
Thomas Desprez
