The Corsican Feast

For three days leading up to the final Saturday of November, the medieval Haute-Ville of Bonifacio was immersed in an exhilarating whirlwind of festive preparations. The ancient citadel had not celebrated a sovereign wedding since the marriage of Lucian’s grandparents seventy years earlier during the aftermath of the Second World War. In the intervening decades of underworld conflict, military service, and solitary rule, the grand cultural traditions of the de…