These were happy days, restaurants open to everyone.
Barely two months after his induction, Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte invite the couple Donald and Melania Trump to the Jules Verne, the star-studded restaurant on the second floor of the Eiffel Tower, on July 13, 2017, for an intimate dinner.
Only the cameras had been invited.
Donald Trump, having taken office in January 2017, was also still a "new", which creates a certain connivance.
Neither the American nor the French had had an elective mandate before conquering the supreme office.
Both, triumphant outsiders and proud of the same arrogance, have hooked atoms, we think at the Elysee.
Paris dreams of being the privileged partner of the new American Administration on the Old Continent.
That the two presidents come to power four months apart is not a trivial constellation.
There is only one precedent, when Republican Ronald Reagan accedes to the White House in
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