Emmanuel Macron, a sure concept of ​​energy | EUROtoday

On November 16, 2016, a pair, sun shades and leather-based pants for her, fitted black swimsuit and matching skinny tie for him, slipped incognito underneath the central portal and arches of the basilica of Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint- Denis). Just after declaring himself a candidate for the presidential election, in Bobigny, Emmanuel Macron and his spouse, Brigitte, sped a number of kilometers away, with out warning anybody, to salute the tombs of the 43 kings of France. Under the winter mild filtered by the rose window of the south arm, the long run president caresses the white marble of the recumbent figures.

Each takeover has its authentic scene. Saint-Denis is the crucible of the nation’s royal previous, the place par excellence of the nationwide story. Other presidential candidates, lovers of lengthy historical past, have additionally preceded Emmanuel Macron to attract a chunk of legitimacy from this magnetic pole of monarchical ambitions: François Mitterrand with Mazarine’s mom, Anne Pingeot, on the fall 1980; Jean-Luc Mélenchon, quietly, in 2012… This day in November 2016, the journalists and the author embedded Philippe Besson, then engaged on writing his e book A personality from a novel (Julliard, 2017), missed Emmanuel Macron’s escapade. But, on the way in which again, the candidate confided to his first admirer, the journalist-blogger Bruno Roger-Petit, the which means of this go to to Saint-Denis: in the course of “speaking stones »find yourself “alone in his destiny”.

Part of mystique should envelop the good journeys, Emmanuel Macron has at all times thought. “Since I entered the political field, I have lived [mon aventure] like a mission. There is (…) something that goes beyond you, that preceded you and that will remain. » On the images recorded in 2016 in Le Touquet (Pas-de-Calais) by director Pierre Hurel for his documentary So be Macron (2017), it is a young man with a soulful look who speaks. That same year, 2016, he also went out of his way to help environmentalist senator from Hauts-de-Seine André Gattolin to meet the Dalai Lama. in Paris, and waited for two hours in the lobby of the Intercontinental Hotel, where the spiritual leader of the Tibetan Buddhists was staying. “The most important meeting of my life after Brigitte”the senator heard him say.

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