QWhat exactly happened?
France is preparing, as happens every thirteen years, for the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Emmanuel Macron chooses, to celebrate the event, to illuminate the Eiffel Tower and the Élysée Palace.
He decides, for even greater solemnity, to have a European flag hung under the Arc de Triomphe.
And here are his adversaries that we had left, for the most agitated among them, incensing or clearing Vichy: they unleashed screaming, which to the desecration of the Unknown Soldier, which to the insult inflicted on the dead for France , who to the crime of high treason.
We will pass on the bad faith which acts as if the star-spangled flag had big-replaced the tricolor flag (although this is only there in rare circumstances, by …
Illustration: Dusault for “Le Point”
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