2023-06-21 11:24:08
2023, Macron drowns his sorrows
President Emmanuel Macron in the Stade de France locker room after the victory of the Stade Toulousain rugby players, Saturday June 17, 2023. (screen capture) TWITTER
“And glug, and glug, and glug, and glug, and glug, and glug!” » Under the encouragement of the players of the Toulouse Stadium, just crowned champions of the Top 14, on Saturday June 17, Emmanuel Macron drank a bottle of Corona beer. If it weren’t for the impeccable suit and tie, the bodyguards and the cameras around him or even the fact of having managed to enter the locker room of the Stade de France, one would have believed in a lambda supporter. Green MP Sandrine Rousseau saw an image of “toxic masculinity in political leadership”. But the President of the Republic perhaps simply wanted to forget a complicated start to the evening: the announcer had not introduced him to the spectators and the Head of State had been booed when he had walked on the lawn.
2015, Holland drinks wine and eats his words
President Francois Hollande and the mayor of Bordeaux Alain Juppé drink red wine at Vinexpo, June 14, 2015. UGO AMEZ / SIPA
“Global Wine Consumption” (sic), “regulation” (re-sic), “already” (re-re-sic)… This June 14, 2015, at the podium of Vinexpo, in Bordeaux, the language of François Hollande – the first President of the Republic to honor this wine and spirits fair with his presence – forked many times . Could this be the consequence of having toasted too much, among the some 2,300 exhibitors, with the mayor of Bordeaux, Alain Juppé, and the Minister of Agriculture, Stéphane Le Foll? Or simply a bit of fatigue (he was at Le Mans the day before for the 24 Hours) ? In any case, social networks are having a field day. During his speech, the Head of State will nevertheless recall his attachment to the “responsible consumption model” set by the Evin law.
2007, Sarkozy drunk by Putin
President Nicolas Sarkozy and President Vladimir Putin at the G8 in Heiligendamm (Germany), June 7, 2007. POOL/REUTERS
Nicolas Sarkozy has always hammered it: alcohol, for him, is nothing! On June 7, 2007, however, after a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Poutine, the speech of the new French president questions. The media present find it “breathless and uncomfortable”. The Internet and social networks are intoxicated by the various videos of his press conference, viewed 15 million times in the space of a few days. “Apparently, he had not only drunk water”, ventures an RTBF presenter, before finally apologizing. “I was late, so I climbed the stairs four by four,” Nicolas Sarkozy will explain to Parisian two weeks later.
1995, Chirac and the Corona virus
President Jacques Chirac, a bottle of beer in hand, during a lunch with volunteer cleaners after the sinking of the oil tanker “Erika”, January 20, 2000. PHILIPPE WOJAZER / REUTERS
Funny butterfly effect, a presidential election in France has boosted the sales of a Mexican beer. On May 18, 1995, the magazine Paris Match publish “64 pages of historical reports” on Jacques Chirac, just elected. In one of the photos, signed Bettina Rheims, the mayor of Paris celebrates his victory in his living room with a bottle of Corona on the table, a beer that his daughter Claude would have made him discover. The legend is launched. Jacques Chirac will summarize later: “When I go to a restaurant, they don’t even ask me what I want to drink, they bring me a bottle of beer right away. »
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