“She embodies the long conquests of French women”

Anne Hidalgo invites us to meet a stone’s throw from the Paris City Hall, in the former town hall of the 4th arrondissement, now the Climate Academy. In the courtyard, young people discuss and the socialist candidate tells us about Olympe de Gouges, but also about her father Antonio.

Anne Hidalgo and the other candidates for the presidential 2022 have made an appointment with Thomas Snégaroff in the place of their choice to deliver their intimate pantheon. One of the prerogatives of the President of the Republic is to decide who can enter the Pantheon. “Great men the grateful country” is it written on the monument of the Sainte-Geneviève mountain, in Paris. But even before entering the Élysée, each of the candidates for the presidential election is nourished by a personal pantheon. Authors, political figures, but also intimates, women and men, but also, why not, fictional heroes, who populate the imagination of the candidates, who built them. All these names, known or unknown, make it possible to better know candidates who engage as rarely.