An accepted requirement. This Sunday, June 23, in its new concern of “Sept à Huit Life”, Harry Roselmack’s groups plunged their viewers into the guts of the preparation for the best spectacle on the planet: Puy du Fou. On this report, the journal brings us the behind-the-scenes environment of the French advanced positioned in Vendée and thru totally different profiles. Technicians, actors, waiters, volunteers… the Puy du Fou park is demonstrated as a particularly well-functioning machine but in addition as an actual human journey. Certainly, since its creation in 1989, the present has crossed generations and given rise to vocations, like that of Pierre, 24 years outdated. On this report, he’s described as a “pure product of Puy du Fou” and as proof his dad and mom, staff of the park, met there. On the age of three, he started his first reveals earlier than coming into the Puy du Fou academy throughout his adolescence: “I’ve all the time been lulled by the world of leisure. (…) We dream of being a knight once you’re little.” A dream come true as a result of the actor, in his rise, landed the function of King Arthur!
In a second half, the viewers uncover Alexandre, 21, a waiter within the “Café de la Madelon”, one of many 36 eating places within the park. This former communication scholar is among the three heads of the room. He manages a workforce of 10 waiters, feeds the equal of greater than 700 clients however should additionally… dance, impressed by a vaudeville on this case within the report. After 55 minutes of intense service, the stress is immense. Alexandre and his groups should clear all of the tables in half an hour earlier than the second present, underneath the gaze of some clients torn between admiration and skepticism: “We all know what quick work is, however I discover that it’s kind of of exploitation”. However the younger scholar brushes apart his doubts in entrance of the TF1 cameras: “I got here with my household to Puy du Fou and once I noticed the waiter begin dancing, I stated to myself ‘I need to try this, it is an unbelievable job'”, enthuses the waiter/dancer/head waiter. A professionalism and a hatred for amateurism notably embodied by Nicolas de Villiers, the son of Philippe de Villiers and present president of the Parc. The boss of this establishment who isn’t completely unanimous amongst Web customers…
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“He’s conceited, calls for gratuitously”
The success of Puy du Fou is essentially based mostly on the dedication of its volunteers. Every year, greater than 4,400 lovers of all ages and from all backgrounds come to assist for the park’s varied reveals and occasions and produce to life “La Cinéscénie”, the park’s best-known sound and lightweight present which has existed since 1978. Among the many volunteers, the Foucart household, actual “Puyfolais”. The report introduces us to the dad and mom, Laura and Bérenger, their kids Louisa, Victoire and Léon, Géraldine the aunt, and Liliane the “Puyfolaise” grandmother of 44 years. Since 1980, the grandmother of the household has performed all the feminine roles: “It’s my ardour, it’s Puy du Fou,” admits the oldest.
On this outpouring, the cameras of Sept à Huit immerse viewers in a pre-show assembly the place among the volunteers are gathered round Nicolas de Villiers, the president of Puy du Fou. On this brief extract, the boss of the advanced gave a really “sturdy” motivational speech to those volunteers: “We can’t disappoint, we can’t be approximate, it is not possible! We’re professionals and we would not give a rattling regarding being volunteers, simply because we’re volunteers we might be amateurs!” A method of seeing and working together with his volunteers that he justifies with this testimony: ” we come freely to Puy du Fou and that is the extraordinary guess: it is the free gesture! We should settle for that in our society which want to monetize every thing there are free gestures”.
A habits and a method of doing issues by Nicolas de Villiers together with his volunteers which arouses amazement and which doesn’t cross muster with Web customers on X.
Nannnnn I am sorry I discover it unbelievable that each one these folks aren’t paid for the work they do! Plus it lets you yell at them #Septahuit
— Grandma Yeta 🚬 (@whos_OG) June 23, 2024
Nicolas De Villiers seems to be like a Macron Junior: he speaks theatrically, orders, is conceited, calls for gratuitously. #septahuit
— Evy (@WooFeuSe) June 23, 2024
The boss “motivates” his volunteers by yelling at them
Do not even attempt 😅😅😅#SeptAHuit
— E-Bernatus LeHorsain (@CowTent1) June 23, 2024
#septahuit
The Devillier son dares to yell on the volunteers that he would not pay? Fairly filthy! 🤢— kriss42🌵 (@christeve27) June 23, 2024
