President of the peña Diego Puerta and active member of bullfighting clubs in her village of Bouillargues, Nicole Pince died this Friday at the age of 71.
The news plunged the village of Bouillargues and all the aficion into grief: Nicole Pince died on Friday March 24 of a devastating illness at the age of 71.
In the village of Bouillagues, “her” village of Bouillargues would it be more accurate to write as she was so attached to it, she was involved in all bullfighting events, whether Camargue or Spanish. A member of the clubs La Embestida and La Cleda, she was notably a faithful palco, every Saturday in October, during the novillada without picador.
President after 2005 of the peña Diego Puerta
In Nîmes, this aficionada torista was also, since 2005, the president of the peña Diego Puerta whose headquarters are in the bodega of El Pilar, rue de l’Horloge. It is a place that she radiated with her smile, where the feria is celebrated the old-fashioned way, to the sounds of improbable French songs, of sevillanas, where we still drink fino and where the song of the cicadas, launched , at an early hour, on the bar by Christine, his daughter-in-law, remains an unmissable moment.
Last June, in the special issue devoted to the 70th anniversary of the Feria de Nîmes, in the article we dedicated to her, Nicole Pince expressed her attachment to this place which she and the volunteers had to completely restore after the 1988 floods.
Pure aficionada who didn’t like bling-bling
Thierry Allez, the president of La Embestida in Bouillargues and a close friend, remembers with great emotion “a pure aficionada who did not like bling-bling”. Faithful to the bullfights of Céret, where we will first see bulls and fights, Nicole Pince had to skip last year. “But she had asked me to take out her subscription for this year. She wanted to catch up and not miss any of the bullfights and certainly not that of July 14 that her son Benoît must preside over,” adds Thierry Go.
Sure that next summer his shadow will hover over the Catalan bullring as he will hover over his village and the bodega of El Pilar at Pentecost.
To Jean-Louis, her husband; to Benoît and Olivier, his sons, and all his relatives, Midi Libre offers its sincere condolences.
