“Catchana” is the ode to doggy style”: the outspokenness of Gérard Larcher. “It would not have been my choice, even to sing Edith Piaf, it is a somewhat disruptive choice by the President of the Republic,” he says.

‘I went to look pretty closely since my own children were asking me the question and I went to see. Good,’ he adds, adding: ‘The choice should have been collective’