Hocquigny Car Boot Sale

Hocquigny Car Boot Sale — Saint-Gratien Festival Committee

The Hocquigny car boot sale is held under the auspices of the Saint-Gratien Festival Committee, whose name recalls the patron saint of the former parish of Hocquigny. This local association has been organizing this popular gathering for several years, which is the highlight of the village's social life.

As Hocquigny is a small village in the Manche bocage, the car boot sale takes on an intimate and authentic dimension not found in larger events. The exhibitors, neighbors and friends, offer items directly from Norman attics and cellars: country furniture and rustic objects, enamelled tableware and pottery, clothes and fabrics, old toys and yellowed books, agricultural and forge tools, trinkets and souvenirs, local products and crafts. Each stand tells a little of the history of the village families.

The Saint-Gratien Festival Committee enlivens local life throughout the year — meals for seniors, patronal festival, various events — of which the car boot sale is the most outward-looking event, allowing residents to welcome visitors and bargain hunters from neighboring communes. It is also a way to make Hocquigny known and to create links with the surrounding territory.

Hocquigny and the canton of Gavray-sur-Sienne

Hocquigny (50320) is a rural commune in the Manche bocage, in the canton of Gavray-sur-Sienne, between Granville and Villedieu-les-Poêles. This traditional Norman bocage territory, with its hedgerows, sunken paths, and wooded meadows, is one of the most preserved in the Manche. The commune is attached to the community of communes of Côte Ouest Centre Manche.

The parish of Saint-Gratien, whose patron saint gives his name to the festival committee, is a testament to the medieval Norman parish network that still structures the collective memory of the Manche villages today.