Le Roi et La Reine: Reigning over the Contradanse to kick off the Cotton Festival

By News Staff on Monday, October 9, 2023
  • Le Roi Earnest Anderson (left) and La Reine Bernadine Fontenot (right) enjoyed the festivities at last year’s Contradanse to kick off the 2022 Cotton Festival. On Tuesday evening, October 10, they will crown the next Le Roi et La Reine of Heritage Manor to participate in this year’s Cotton Festival events. (Gazette photo by Heather Bogard)
    Le Roi Earnest Anderson (left) and La Reine Bernadine Fontenot (right) enjoyed the festivities at last year’s Contradanse to kick off the 2022 Cotton Festival. On Tuesday evening, October 10, they will crown the next Le Roi et La Reine of Heritage Manor to participate in this year’s Cotton Festival events. (Gazette photo by Heather Bogard)
By: HEATHER BOGARD Associate Editor For reigning La Reine Bernadine Fontenot (86) and Le Roi Earnest Anderson (83), serving as the Heritage Manor Cotton Festival Royalty was a fun experience. They each enjoyed the pomp and circumstance of the annual Contradanse, where they got to put on their finest and dress up for their crowning moments. Fontenot grew up in Grand Prairie, where her family…

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