Forty years in the past, Mickey stated sure to France | EUROtoday

The evening is already right here, and the Disney World park in Orlando has been emptied of its guests. An envoy from the French State, unaccustomed to robust sensations, however, this autumn night of 1985, continues the tips of curler coasters (curler coaster). “It went up, it went down, I went through tunnels,” nonetheless plagues, forty years later, Jean Peyrelevade. Prime Minister Laurent Fabius despatched this former deputy director of the cupboard of his predecessor, Pierre Mauroy, to Ronald Reagan’s United States to barter on behalf of the socialist authorities with a flagship of American imperialism.

The missionee has just a few weeks to persuade Disney to pick France, quite than Spain, for a contract with gigantic advantages, that of the institution on the Old Continent of the Euro Disney park, later renamed Disneyland Paris. Jean Peyrelevade had barely gotten off the airplane when the agency imposed an extended, immersive tour on him in its mannequin park in Florida. “I had to play like a kid and, from the beginning, I understood that the group I was dealing with was, in many ways, unbearable,” whispers the 86-year-old former emissary, in his front room within the Parisian district of Étoile.

The tensions with Disney might be as excessive because the financial and political points. And the conflict of cultures between the socialist France of the Nineteen Eighties and Reagan’s America will solely amplify the misunderstandings. However, simply forty years in the past, on December 18, 1985, Prime Minister Laurent Fabius and the empire ofleisure introduced the creation of the Marne-la-Vallée website, in Seine-et-Marne. At the price of hectic negotiations.

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