After significant electoral victories, politicians also like to decompress and enjoy their loved ones in order to celebrate these rare moments of joy and jubilation. Some celebrations are still remembered, such as the evening organized in the very chic Fouquet’s by Nicolas Sarkozy on the evening of his election as head of state in 2007. Or the one orchestrated by those close to Emmanuel Macron in La Rotonde after reaching the second round five years ago.
But this year, no tinsel or members of show business for the re-elected president who, after a rather brief speech at the Champ-de-Mars, went with his relatives to La Lanterne, presidential residence located in the park of the Castle of Versailles. “No flashy restaurant to celebrate his victory, sobriety, that was the word, in the mouths of those close to Emmanuel Macron”reports a journalist from France Info. An evening, in a small committee, according to information from a source of the express. “Given all the people I met tonight who don’t go there, it’s family-family”would have slipped a relative of the statesman.
La Lanterne is a hunting lodge, used as the state residence of the French Republic. Under the Fifth Republic, it became a secondary residence made available to the Prime Minister, but since the inauguration of Nicolas Sarkozy, it has been made available to the Head of State. This is also where the father of Jean and Pierre Sarkozy went with his wife Carla Bruni after the birth of their daughter Giulia. The couple was then seen strolling the newborn in the park located on the edge of the residence.
It is also here that François Hollande and Valérie Trierweiler spent a few moments of relaxation away from the hustle and bustle of the capital. But the former First Lady especially has the painful memory of having been sent off by her companion at the time when the scandal of her adultery made headlines around the world. Sent there to rest, the journalist then left the Élysée for good…
Thibaud Cruz
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