On May 17, 2022 the city of Charly belonging to the Urban Community of Lyon and the Château de la Poupee training center for apprentices signed the Universal Declaration of Humankind Rights in the presence of Christophe Giovannetti, Secretary General, representing Mrs. Corinne Lepage, President and Carole Berté, Treasurer.
In the morning, Olivier Araujo, mayor of Charly, an urban municipality located to the south-east of Lyon Metropolis in the Auvergne-Rhóne-Alpes Region, signed the Declaration accompanied by its deputy mayor for the environment, Marie-Laurence Ré, agronomist, by Michel Fournier, City Councilor for Security and Culture and the Mayor of Vernaison, Jullien Vuillemardard.
Charly is a town where life is good which has “the charm of a village and the potential of a city”, a town of history which has an important heritage linked to agriculture and especially to arboriculture with atural areas and orchards which occupy 50% of the territory.
Charly is a city committed to respect for nature, the preservation of natural spaces, the search for ancient and contemporary seeds, the protection of species. In the context of climate change and its ecological policy, it set up the Ferme Melchior 2 years ago, a laboratory for ideas and experiments in European biodiversity. This Applied Botany Resource Center (the CRBA) directed by Stéphane Crozat, ethnobotanist, offers new answers and develops scientific research programs by integrating food and environmental challenges.
This Center is supported by the city but also by the Metropolis, the Patronage, and associations. It has links with the World Seed Bank which is located in Saint Petersburg. The second signature of this day concerns the Training Center for Gastronomy Apprentices (the CFAG) directed by the starred chef from Lyon Christian Têtedoie at the Château de Lacroix-Laval in Marcy-l’Etoile, property of Greater Lyon, headquarters of the former doll museum. This Center will open its doors in September 2022. Unique in France, it will be dedicated to gourmet cuisine. It will allow apprentices to train intensively on the trade, the knowledge of the products, and the producers. It will allow you to know the tricks of the great cooks, bakers and pastry chefs for 3 months then to leave for two years in the great restaurants… This Center which aims to reconcile young people with learning, which seeks excellence and transmission consists of two application restaurants, a tea room, a bakery-pastry laboratory and an educational vegetable garden.
The Declaration signed by the city of Charly in the person of Mayor Olivier Araujo and the one signed by the Château de la Poupee training center for apprentices by the famous starred chef Christian Têtedoie confirm their commitments in the context of human development and sustainability, their commitment to traditional knowledge, the maintenance of biodiversity and confirms their responsibility towards present and future generations. These signatures have symbolic value following the signature of large cities such as Paris, Strasbourg or San Francisco of the attachment of all to the protection of living things.
