The greeting card from the town hall of Bordeaux where the statue of Jacques Chaban-Delmas does not appear -

Ville de Bordeaux

  • On the photo of the Place Pey-Berland serving as a decoration for the wishes of the municipal majority, the statue of Jacques Chaban-Delmas has disappeared.

  • The grandson of the former mayor of Bordeaux, and opposition municipal council, Guillaume Chaban-Delmas, was moved on social networks by this situation.

  • The municipality ensures that there is "no malice", and that it used an old photo of the place, at the time when the statue did not exist yet.

A new bad buzz in perspective for Pierre Hurmic?

This is what his opposition hopes in any case, which has raised a controversy on social networks since Tuesday, concerning the greeting card of the municipal majority.

On one of the photos of Bordeaux chosen to illustrate these wishes, we can see the Place Pey-Berland without the statue of Jacques Chaban-Delmas.

It didn't take much for Guillaume Chaban-Delmas, the grandson of the illustrious former mayor of Bordeaux, and new opposition municipal councilor, to step up and accuse the mayor Pierre Hurmic and his team of having makes "his illustrious predecessor disappear."

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. @ PierreHurmic: am I the only one to wonder why this low cost greeting card, in very ugly neon green and worthy of a feverish schoolboy, made the statue of one of your illustrious predecessors disappear?

#Chaban #Bordeaux @SO_Bordeaux @BdxEnsemble @Bordeaux @ jjcd49 pic.twitter.com/oxvMRI4RG7

- Guillaume Chaban-Delmas (@G_chaban) January 5, 2021

Several members of the opposition group Bordeaux Ensemble, starting with its leader and former mayor Nicolas Florian, followed suit.

A second tribute from @Bordeaux to #chaban ... https://t.co/S9XuuZAZCY

- Nicolas Florian (@ nflorian33) January 5, 2021

"Nobody paid attention"

Contacted by

20 Minutes

, the municipality ensures that it has not deleted from the photo the statue of Jacques Chaban-Delmas.

“It's just that we used an old photo, taken from our photo library, taken when the statue was not yet in place.

Nobody paid attention.

The city provided us with the original photo that was used to make the greeting card:

The original photo used to make the greeting card for the town hall of Bordeaux - City of Bordeaux / Archives

“We see that in the photo used for the greeting card, the cathedral is black, although it has since been renovated and the stone is now white,” continues the municipality.

We took the photo again in the afternoon with the same framing, and we see that the statue of Jacques Chaban-Delmas would have barely been visible in the greeting card anyway ”:

Place Pey-Berland in Bordeaux with the statue of Jacques Chaban-Delmas - Thomas Sanson / Villed e Bordeaux

The municipality assures that there is “absolutely no malice, and we are even surprised by the controversy.

It becomes grotesque.

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