The Angers first "after"

For several weeks, Angers inhabitants were used to see the enlightment of streets and front sides, the hustle and bustle around the wooden mobile blue and red chalets on Ralliement square, the music and the smell of hot wine. That atmosphere turned frenzy on Decembre 31st, when people rushed in stores to do their ultimate purchases for the Eve of the year. Once the night separating two different years passed away, the city was quiet and desert. But the most perfect contrast between the "before" and the "after" was in Saint-Maurice cathedral on the evening of January 1st. 

While, around the cathedral, the car parks are usually occupied, many places were free and even pedestrians were scarce in the surroundings of the monument. Few after 6 pm, when night started to invade the sky, the entrance of the cathedral gave access to an atmosphere completely different of those the catholics Angevins had lived a few days before with Christmas. Behind the door, at that time, the main nave was, except one person sat on the left, completely empty. No noise, no breeze inside the monument was perceptible. Only the silence was audible. Only the meditation of a single believer was present. 

 Close to him, all the statues of the past bishops of Angers looked in the center of the nave, towards a weak glimmer in the choir where a panel "Annus Fideis 2012-2013" was enlighted. Angers passed from the frenzy of the previous evening in the consumption temples of the city to the silence of its cathedral, as if the city wanted to hold its breath before a new year.