The scenography is grandiose, bordering on the grandiloquent.
A president installed under the nave of the Pantheon.
Naturalization in front of the cameras of five French people chosen by the Elysée.
The celebration of fifteen personalities from our history, with an exemplary career, such as the Franco-American dancer Joséphine Baker.
The reason for this amazing ceremony?
A date rarely celebrated, but that Emmanuel Macron has decided to bring up to date.
This is the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic.
On September 4, 1870, Léon Gambetta - whose heart is preserved in the Pantheon - proclaimed the Republic from the Hôtel de Ville in Paris.
At the Elysee Palace, it is assured that this event was stopped long ago, that it has nothing to do with the shelling of the right on the "failures" of the president in the field of security, the first mission of the 'State.
Its ambition is to bring the Nation together, because “it has become imperative to recall our principles and absolute freedom of conscience.
The Republic cannot be accompanied by secessionist temptations, one explains in the presidential entourage.
Twenty years ago, we did not debunk statues, we did not attack the French imagination ”.
In front of schoolchildren invited for the occasion, Emmanuel Macron planned a “combat” speech, intended to “remind people what every French person owes to the Republic”.
A shock measure
More words?
This will be the Head of State's seventh speech on the explosive theme of the Republic and secularism since 2017. As if his vision, willingly theoretical, was struggling to print in public opinion.
Precisely, the Head of State finally promises something concrete ... for the fall.
The Pantheon's speech is supposed to be the "prologue" of a series of initiatives, culminating with the bill intended to fight in particular against "Islamist separatism".
Entrusted to Gérald Darmanin, the text will be presented in November to the Council of Ministers for examination in Parliament at the beginning of 2021.
Emmanuel Macron will present the broad outlines on September 15, during a trip to "a land impacted by separatism, marked by departures to conflict zones and where republican reconquest work has recorded results," slips a source power.
Among the measures announced will be, according to our information, a shock measure: the obligation for subsidized associations to sign a "charter of republican values".
In short: in the event of community deviation, the State will cut off food!
In the meantime, Emmanuel Macron will make ground: he plans to travel next week to talk about equal opportunities, with the Minister Delegate for the Interior Marlène Schiappa.
At the same time, at the end of the month, it must relaunch its “Cité de la francophonie” project in Villers-Cotterêts (Aisne).
A symbolic place.
It is in this castle of François Ier that were signed, in 1539, the ordinances making French compulsory in the official acts.
A major date in national construction.
A movement "above ground" which seeks roots
Two years from the end of his mandate, the Head of State accelerates on the memorial.
“Emmanuel Macron is not the result of any political history, analyzes the former memory adviser to François Hollande, Bernard Poignant.
Its movement is above ground.
The president is therefore looking for landmarks and roots to build a tradition.
After having sung the praises of Georges Pompidou, in 2019, then of General de Gaulle in 2020, here he is glorifying the Third Republic.
On November 11, he will preside over the transfer of the ashes of the writer Maurice Genevoix to the Pantheon - the temple of the Republic is definitely very popular!
The chosen calendar makes it possible to send postcards to all the electorates.
Thus, Emmanuel Macron will go next year on land dear to the left and to fans of François Mitterrand: according to our information, on October 9, 2021, Emmanuel Macron will celebrate 40 years of the abolition of the death penalty.
This is what we call firing all the wood.
