STORY – The Grande Boucle, which welcomes Emmanuel Macron this Thursday in the Pyrenees, has become under the Fifth Republic an essential step for heads of state. Since the surprise appearance of General de Gaulle in 1960, their visits have been teeming with anecdotes.
Yellow, more yellow and always yellow for Emmanuel Macron. Not that of the “vests” and the breath of anger that shook his five-year term, but the one that has united the nation along the routes of the Tour de France for more than a century. The Head of State has once again checked the Grande Boucle on his summer agenda. On Thursday, he will slip into the car of the director of the event, Christian Prudhomme, to follow the stage at the top between Pau and Luz-Ardiden, in the Pyrenees, as in 2019. Two years ago, the arrival of the procession Presidential had smiled at the French in the peloton. Thibaut Pinot won ahead of Julian Alaphilippe, leader of the general classification. The opportunity for the president to discuss at length with the new darling of the French public not without having shared a warm handshake, all smiles with this yellow “vest” of a particular kind. The image is funny.
Macron fails in the year of the Benalla affair, in 2018
Since being elected in 2017, Macron
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