Meurthe-et-Moselle. Itinerant Trade: These Tours Are Essential to the Rural World

On the phone, he told us he was at L'Orée du Bois, in Fléville-devant-Nancy, on Tuesday morning. But in this neighborhood of a commune in the Nancy metropolitan area, we searched for his van for a while before asking a resident... "You turn right, and at the end of the road, you turn left. You can't miss William."

In the neighborhood, almost everyone knows William Deflin. Based in Pulligny, the butcher and delicatessen has been coming every Tuesday morning since... Covid .

"In March 2020, Mayor Alain Boulanger called me to ask if I could come to Fléville," says the craftsman, between serving customers. "I came, and after Covid, I decided to continue..."

If the craftsman was called upon at the time, it was because he had already been making rounds in the villages with his refrigerated truck, for...

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