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The Mobilier national has just delivered to the Élysée the new table intended for the Council of Ministers – the Medulla: a first in the history of the Palace.
By Julie Malaure
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MNext Wednesday, as tradition dictates, the members of Elisabeth Borne’s government will meet, with Emmanuel Macron, around a table at the Élysée Palace to decide on the future of the country. It is called the “Council of Ministers table”, wrongly. Lift the colossal petticoat that covers it and you will discover… trestles! A rough forest of wooden legs supporting planks…worthy of a village hall banquet! “There is no table, and there never was! », says Hervé Lemoine, director of Mobilier national since 2018, an institution in charge of furnishing the Élysée.
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