Élie Bonnanfant, post receiver, receives the first national prize for friendliness

Receiver of the positions of Vierville-sur-Mer since May 1966, Élie Bonnanfant won the first national prize for kindness awarded by the Commissariat général au Tourisme. This distinction rewarded his reception of users.

He had first received a first departmental prize ex æquo, before his file was transmitted to the national jury. Asked about the reasons for this award, he simply explained that he had done his job.

However, the article described a particular attention to the needs of the public: agree to respond to users arriving outside the usual hours, serve them while reminding them of opening hours, sell a stamp or a notebook despite a late request, or resume your accounting to allow the urgent shipment of documents. He considered these gestures as details, but the newspaper stressed that they gave a good impression to French and foreign tourists during the summer season.

The price included a flight for two people, to Noumea or Tahiti. Mr. and Mrs. Bonnanfant had chosen Tahiti to spend about ten or fifteen days there during their annual leave.

Before this trip, an official reception was to take place in mid-May in Paris, under the presidency of the Secretary of State for Tourism. The couple had booked rooms in an establishment presented as the friendliest hotel in France. The newspaper associated Mrs. Bonnanfant, originally from Toulon, with the congratulations addressed to the winner.

Reconstructed or uncertain passages:
- The name of the file places the denomination in 1967, but this date is not printed in the preserved part of the article.
- The column at the top right belongs to another incomplete article devoted to the preservation of historic neighborhoods and to Mr. Charpentier. It was not mixed with the portrait of the post receiver; it remains visible on the original image.

Archive image: https://vierville.cordelle.eu/Photos2008/1967-PostyePrixAmab.jpg