Vide-Grenier de Villiers-Fossard

Vide-Grenier de Villiers-Fossard — 35 exhibitors

The Vide-Grenier de Villiers-Fossard brings together around 35 exhibitors each year in this hedged village near Saint-Lô (50680). Its modest size gives it an intimate and authentic character that large commercial events cannot offer. Each exhibitor is a neighbor, a friend, and the items offered directly tell the story of the families of the bocage manchois.

The 35 exhibitors from Villiers-Fossard offer a varied selection from Norman attics and cellars: country furniture (wardrobes, sideboards, straw-seated chairs), enamelled tableware and Norman earthenware, clothing and linens, old wooden or metal toys and games, books and magazines, garden and craft tools, trinkets and decorative objects, old agricultural tools, vinyl records, and cassettes. Each stall offers surprises and finds at generally very accessible prices.

This village car boot sale plays an important role in the social cohesion of Villiers-Fossard. It provides an annual reason for residents to meet, chat, and welcome visitors from neighboring towns. In the bocage manchois, where villages are slowly depopulating, events like this car boot sale help maintain social bonds and village identity.

Villiers-Fossard and the Saint-Lô bocage

Villiers-Fossard (50680) is a rural commune in the bocage manchois, very close to Saint-Lô, the prefecture of Manche. The dense hedged landscape, with its hedges and pastures, reflects a traditional agriculture that is still present despite recent changes. The commune is part of the Saint-Lô agglomeration community.

Saint-Lô, a martyred city during World War II (90% of its area destroyed in 1944), was rebuilt as the "capital of ruins" according to the phrase of the poet Samuel Beckett, who passed through it just after its liberation. Its post-war reconstruction architecture and its museums make it a unique testament to Norman reconstruction after the war.