Shocking ! It was to take place from Sunday 26 to Wednesday 29 March. It was to…but won’t take place for at least several months. More visit of King Charles III of England, to France ? As the headline of the Figarono doubt, this is a “ confession of impotence “. Worse, according to its front page editorial, it is a “ humiliation “.
And this daily does not have harsh enough words against Emmanuel Macron, believing thatin postponing the journey of Charles III, “ the President of the Republic recognizes for the first time that the country is dancing on a volcano (…) Right in his boots during his televised intervention on Wednesday, he repeated that the crowd demonstrating had no legitimacy. He now fears that she will challenge his. And he admits his helplessness in the face of the disorder of the street ; his inability to contain any violence as his royal guest passes (…) This means that the “democratic path” that Emmanuel Macron intends to pursue on pension reform is changing more and more, for him, in a way of the cross (…) the monarch – republican, that one – is more alone than ever (…) it is humiliation (…) Terrible disillusionment of a dilapidated nation which one wonders in what state it will be to host the Olympics next year », Lumberjack in One Le Figaro.
Hard blow for Macron
“ The humiliation is great for those who want to be monarch, ignoring the demands of union representatives and elected officials, indifferent to the clamors of the street, bids Release. Will the Head of State and his Minister of the Interior continue to fan the embers of popular anger (…) ? Would they seek to pit the French against each other, the partisans of order at all costs against those of social justice, in the hope of swelling the ranks of the former and drawing legitimacy from them? ? The country is in a (…) situation of deadlock, suffocated by the denial of a single man », laments Freed.
Small dishes in the big ones
To receive Charles III and his wife, Camilla, on Monday at Versailles, the Élysée had planned to take out the dishes. “ Almost 150 guests around a 60 meter long table set up in the Hall of Mirrors for an exceptional banquet which was to be prepared by prestigious chefs, reports The Parisian. Excellence embodied : chef Anne-Sophie Pic and her counterpart Yannick Alléno, both crowned with three stars in the Michelin guide since 2007. With a menu, until then kept secret, to make your taste buds salivate. To her the design of the entrance : green asparagus. The main course is his : Bresse poultry with corn sauce and truffles. Then the plate of three cheeses (including a thirty-month-old Comté, one of the king’s indulgences) accompanied by a rhubarb water jelly, prepared by the house of master cheesemakers Anthony. And finally, adds Le Parisien, the highlight of the meal, a dessert concocted by pastry chef Pierre Hermé : a tarte tatin revisited with caramel and dried fruit. »
It missed ! ” Farewell to Versailles, finished the descent of the Champs-Élysées with the 140 horses of the Republican Guard, to oblivion the speech of the king before the Senate. » As reported The Parisianat the Élysée, the images of a Charles III crossing demonstrators in his path “ in the process of brandishing effigies of a decapitated king gave in particular some cold sweats to the advisers of the president “.
Schoking !
The Parisian could hardly conclude his tasty article without asking television host Stéphane Bern for his comment. The adjournment of the visit of the English sovereigns in France is enough to dismay this self-proclaimed specialist in crowned heads, who prides himself on rubbing shoulders with the elite. Very disappointed, Stéphane Bern considers in The Parisian that it is “ all the same a terrible snub for France “.
Finally, note that in London, the DailyMail mocks an Emmanuel Macron “ humiliated “. No question for this British tabloid to admit that the postponement of the royal visit to France was motivated by the alleged interest of King Charles III “ to mingle with the crowd “. It is “ laughable “, says a British source to the site of this London newspaper.