Justice is closely interested in a sumptuous dinner given by Laurent Wauquiez, the president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. 100,000 euros for 90 guests, that invites us to dream about the menu.
“It takes large sums to eat well. In the century we live in, we no longer know how to eat” : certainly, we can complain about it but justice finds fault when a local authority spends too much in a single meal.
We told you about it this week on France Info, searches took place at the headquarters of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region as part of an open investigation into a sumptuous dinner given by Laurent Wauquiez, the president of the region, in June 2022 – we are talking about a little over 100,000 euros for 90 guests. It actually does “large sums to eat well”.
But Laurent Naouri was just singing a score from 1860, the opera The Dove by Charles Gounod. And, already at the time, we regret the time when the kings gave banquets which could last a month. Nostalgia.
In the first episode of These songs that make the news this weekend, you hear excerpts from:
Laurent Naouri, with The Hallé, The Great Art of Cooking (The Dove by Charles Gounod, act II, sc. 1), 1860, recording 2015
My Concubine, Special menu2018
Lizzy Ling, Restaurant2015
Henry Tachan, The Usual Table1969
More Bifluorinated Song, boogie wah meal1991
Juliet, Juliet’s Feast2002
Pascal Mazzotti, in Short Head by Norbert Carbonneaux, 1956
Lizzy Ling feat. Jean Fauque, Restaurant 2015
Alice Donna, low calorie song2004
Pierre Vassiliu, Gentlemen, what can I serve you?1975
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