2023-06-04 19:41:53
Mont-Saint-Michel, its steps, its abbey, its archangel… and its presidents. This Monday, June 4, Emmanuel Macron will walk the narrow streets of the monument, as did many of his predecessors: from Pompidou to Holland, passing by Mitterrand – who came to launch the sand removal work in 1983 then in 1988 – and Chirac in 2002, starting his re-election campaign. Just invested candidate by the UMP, Nicolas Sarkozy had also gone there in January 2007, the first stage of his victory at the Élysée.
Like them, Emmanuel Macron will take advantage of this high place of heritage to “celebrate the greatness” of the country. For the abbey’s millennium, he will deliver a “speech on the permanence and resilience of France in the face of the control of the elements, the embellishment of nature and the transmission of our History” at the end of the day. ‘Elysium. A visit that could also answer at the term “decivilization” recently mentioned by President.
“Mont-Saint-Michel is French success, what we must preserve and what we must not deconstruct”, recalls the former adviser to Sarkozy Franck Louvrier. Emmanuel Macron will perhaps look for inspiration in the words of François Mitterrand evoking in the same walls “the eternal and yet always new values, outside of which man knows only malaise, ruins, despair”.
After months of dispute on pensions, the Head of State is still trying to reconnect with the French. “This type of heritage and memorial trip is more consensual”, deciphers Gaspard Gantzer, former adviser to Holland. On the eve of a day of mobilization against the reform, Emmanuel Macron continues to want to talk about something else. With always the same objective: to try to move forward and to remove the sand from his five-year term.
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