Episode 2: Louis-Henri de La Rochefoucauld, a journalist in the Books section of L’Express, introduces you to the Cercle de l’Union interalliée, where the Dinner of the Century meets once a month, bringing together some of the most powerful figures of the Fifth Republic.
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The team: Charlotte Baris (presentation), Mathias Penguilly (writing), Léa Bertrand (editing) and Jules Krot (direction).
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Charlotte Baris: Dear listeners, if you listened to yesterday’s episode, you know that this week, in La Loupe, we are introducing you to mythical places of power in France. Yesterday, it was the Elysée – and if you haven’t listened to our guided tour, I invite you to pause this podcast and come back to it in a few minutes.
In today’s episode, we’re going to enter another private mansion on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris. We’re exactly 200 meters from the presidential palace, on a stretch of street that has far fewer barriers and police vehicles, but is just as uncrowded. The building we’re going to is located precisely at number 33 of the Street. We are right between the Japanese embassy and the British embassy.
And our guide for the day knows the place well. He is Louis-Henri de la Rochefoucauld, a writer and journalist in the Books section of L’Express. Normally, he is waiting for us in the courtyard of the building.
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