Emmanuel Macron planned to speak during a visit to the Louvre this Tuesday, January 28, he could make announcements concerning a new “major presidential project”.
Weakened by the political crisis which broke out after the dissolution of the National Assembly last June, Emmanuel Macron takes a step back on political subjects and leaves it to its successive prime ministers to find a way to move forward. But the President of the Republic does not want to be inactive and keeps hands on certain files: international policy and some “major presidential projects”. Among these, the renovation and reopening of Notre-Dame-de-Paris caught attention. And the head of state seems to have found his next project: the Louvre museum.
Emmanuel Macron intends to go to the Parisian museum, the most visited in the world, and give a speech this Tuesday, February 28, according to the information of RTLconfirmed by Bfmtv. A visit organized only a few days after the director of the Laurence des Cars establishment sounded the alarm on the state of decrepitude of the Louvre. In a note of January 13 consulted by The Parisianthe museum director reported “the multiplication of damage in sometimes very degraded spaces”, “obsolescence (of) technical equipment” or even “disturbing variations in temperatures endangering the state of conservation of works “To the Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati.
The message would have mounted above than the Ministry of Culture and even to the Elysée Palace since, according to RTLEmmanuel Macron follows this file closely. He would have already gone to the Louvre museum to see the extent of the damage alongside Laurence des Cars. He would now like to respond to the concerns of the director of the museum, who requires sufficient financial support to rehabilitate the Louvre and ensure his sustainability.
The Louvre, a new Notre-Dame?
Has Emmanuel Macron already plan to respond to the difficulties of the Louvre? Does he plan to make concrete announcements during his speech on January 28? His entourage keeps the secret on what the President of the Republic could say, but he confirms that the museum should be the subject of a “major presidential project”, like Notre-Dame-de-Paris before him.
The Head of State was actually fully invested in the file of the famous cathedral of the French capital, from the day when she left for smoke, on April 15, 2019, that of her reopening, on December 7, 2024. evening of the drama he had gone on the spot, canceling the broadcast of one of his speeches, and had promised to rebuild Notre-Dame-de-Paris “because it is a part of the French destiny”. The next day he set a goal, his goal: “I want it to be completed within five years”. A promise in which little believed, but held five years and eight months later. A success that Emmanuel Macron followed in the smallest detail with no less than seven visits to the site of Notre-Dame and that he attributes to at least in part. With the reconstruction of the Parisian cathedral, the Head of State hopes to leave an elevated trace of his passage to the Elysée since terni by repeated political failures. Does he want to make the Louvre a new opportunity to restore his image?