"An iced cup of tea" under the foliages of Angers Quai Ligny walkway

It was surely not the most dramatic event of Les Accroche-Coeurs, but it was maybe the most opened to simple and individual participation of Angers inhabitants : the tea party planned at five o'clock sharp on Quai Ligny walkway at the bottom of the castle. Hundreds of people were gathered under the foliages of the limetrees, sharing tea, sat on blankets covering the lawn. Many members, above all women , of the "Plantagenêt people" (as Calixte de Nigremont, the ceremony master, called them) had complied with the dress code of that symbolic English use. 

Another caracteristic of the tea party was it gathered young people. Women and girls wore hats and dresses and many participants had paper crowns on their head. The atmosphere was lively, partly because of the "royal" tune (the Haendel's Water Music) which invaded the place. The initiative stirred the interest of medias came to shot pictures and to interview. The only false note was maybe the competition between Angevins look-alikes with members of England royal family and the gossips (in French) regarding thee private life of these.

The tea party gave a glimpse about what could be the Maine banks once they will be designed as planned by the New Banks project. The weather was ideal (82° F) for a nice cup of tea. That "tea party" looked apolitical even if de Nigremont urged participants to join the 3 500 supporters of the Plantagenêt petition.