Episode 1: Emilie Lanez, senior reporter at L’Express and Eric Mandonnet, editor-in-chief of the Politics department, take you on a tour of some highly strategic rooms in the Elysée Palace.
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Charlotte Baris: The Fifth French Republic is full of places that are as mysterious as they are sumptuous. They are far from prying eyes. They are sometimes nicknamed “the gold of the Republic” or “the arcana of power”, and they give rise to all kinds of fantasies. This is often where small stories meet History with a capital H. When they investigate the behind the scenes of French politics, the journalists of L’Express sometimes have the chance to visit them. And this week, they take you into the intimacy of these majestic places of power. Episode 1: the Elysée Palace.
Dear listeners, you may have noticed that yesterday was the end of an extremely tense political sequence. A sequence with very strong decisions, which were often played out behind impenetrable walls. While after the legislative elections, intense secret negotiations will still take place, we decided, with the La Loupe team, to introduce you to some of these places of power that one can – almost – never enter. And today we start with the first of them: the Elysée.
Everyone knows this palace, the seat of the French presidency, located in the heart of the capital, on rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. But few have had the chance to enter it. So what we offer you is a guided tour. And not just any guided tour: we will show you the other side of Macron’s power through two emblematic places of these seven years of presidency. I am currently in the courtyard of this magnificent 18th century mansion and I have an appointment with Eric Mandonnet, the head of the Political department of L’Express. I can see him not far away…
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