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The little surprises of the presidential dresser

2021-06-12T04:02:34.765Z


CHRONICLE - The Louvre-Lens is devoting an exhibition to the “Tables of Power” from Antiquity to the present day. Several pieces from the services of the Élysée are to be discovered ...


At banquets, the most fun is at the end of the table.

Also at the Louvre-Lens.

The last part of the “Tables of Power” exhibition, devoted to the Élysée Palace, is intriguing and attractive.

In a country like ours, regularly shaken by egalitarian spasms, going from a Louis XV above all to that of Jacques Chirac, from the plates of Marie-Thérèse (of Austria) to those of Emmanuel Macron ... great art.

Let's open the presidential cabinet.

Surprise, we find no trace of an order from General de Gaulle.

The first president of the Fifth Republic had so little taste for state dinners, we learn from reading the catalog, that he regularly had the cheese removed, to prevent it from dragging on.

Can you imagine the man of June 18 taking an interest in the little birds that line the bottom of the plates?

Georges Pompidou makes up for it by entrusting Serge Poliakoff with the task of designing a service and François-Xavier Lalanne, the famous ostrich bar.

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Source: lefigaro

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