This Wednesday January 12 marks the “presentation of the Epiphany cake” in the presence of Emmanuel Macron. A moment that has often been the scene of little phrases released by presidents. And that did not escape Olivia Leray.
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While almost everyone has already turned the page on the galette des rois for five or six days – I am already “objective: pancakes of the candlestick”, personal – at the Elysee, it is a tradition. We always organize around January 12 the traditional galette des rois. A competition cake: 1.20m in diameter, five kilos of dough and seven kilos of almond powder.
It is a tradition established by Valéry Giscard-d’Estaing in 1975 with a particularity: there is no bean or crown. It’s a republican cake. An opportunity for the presidents to come out their best jokes in front of the apprentice bakers present but also to scold us and tell us to work …
Nicolas Sarkozy, for example, in 2012 in front of the cake: “Here is a beautiful promise made to the youth of emancipation, through work. We emancipate ourselves through work, we don’t emancipate ourselves by waiting for it to happen“. And yes, even around a portion of frangipane, it is important not to forget: you have to work guys!
Same fight for Emmanuel Macron who scolds people at the cake 2019 (we are then in full movement “yellow vests”): “The troubles that our society is going through are also sometimes linked to the fact that far too many of our fellow citizens think that we can achieve things without a sense of effort!“And yes, the famous sense of effort to straighten out the country.
And then François Hollande, him, pancake 2017 before we left, it was essentially not super funny jokes, but we forgive him, at least him, he did not scold us!
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