The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, who appeared with a reddened proper eye on Thursday, January 15, throughout his greetings to the armies, was ironic in referring to “an involuntary reference to the eye of the tiger”, “a sign of determination”.
“Please excuse this unsightly appearance of my eye”he mentioned on the Istres air base (Bouches-du-Rhône) in entrance of an viewers of senior officers. “It’s just something completely innocuous”added the Head of State, arriving on the army base along with his gaze hidden behind massive aviator glasses. This is a small vessel within the eye that has bled, which is “totally benign”in keeping with the chief physician of the Elysée, added his entourage.
“Simply see it as an involuntary reference to the eye of the tiger at the start of the year. For those who have the reference, it is a sign of determination. She is whole”mentioned Emmanuel Macron.
A reference to Georges Clemenceau, nicknamed the Tiger, a determine of French dedication throughout the First World War? Or to Rocky, Italian-American boxer immortalized by actor Sylvester Stallone in The Eye of the Tiger (Rocky III) ?
The head of state then known as on France and its armies to consent “efforts commensurate with our harsh times” and introduced, given Donald Trump’s claims on Greenland, the sending of “land, air and sea means” on this autonomous Danish territory. “To be powerful in this brutal world, you have to do faster and do stronger”he mentioned.
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