Annie Peynet Biography
I have known Biot since the summer of 1946. After the war, a journalist friend of my father's suggested that we come to Biot on holiday. During a visit to the home of a former pre-war press director, he offered him a plot of land with a tower. My father fell in love with Biot and bought the land on the ramparts in 1949 to build a house in 1950.
I have known Biot since the summer of 1946. After the war, a journalist friend of my father's suggested that we come to Biot on holiday. During a visit to the home of a former pre-war press director, he offered him a plot of land with a tower. My father fell in love with Biot and bought the land on the ramparts in 1949 to build a house in 1950. Every year at Easter and every summer we came to Biot to our house. My father used to work there and we used to go to the beach in Juan les Pins by bus. My father used to make and give out wedding invitations and posters for the village festivals. I got married in 1960 in Biot. I moved there permanently in 1960 and my two children, born in Paris, went to school in Biot. My parents left Paris permanently for Biot. My parents, according to their wishes, are buried in the Rine cemetery in Biot. Like my father, I love Biot. Everyone knows me and thinks I've been here forever, in fact I became a Biot resident at the age of 9. The links are not the same as in the big cities. Everyone was "buddy", there was no money, no politics and everyone was generous. In 2008, as a tribute to my father, his drawings were exhibited in the exhibition halls in Biot for 4 months, it was a very beautiful exhibition. Today, still living in Biot, still on the chemin de Ronde, I am involved in associations such as the "Don du sang" and the "Amicale Biotoises des Traditions".