Special envoy to Luz-Ardiden
The small loop in the Grande Boucle. For the fourth stage of his Tour de France, Emmanuel Macron went to the eighteenth stage of the Tour de France on Thursday - the real one. One of the most symbolic. Perhaps also the most famous. The one that sees the runners climb from Pau to Luz-Ardiden, via the famous Col du Tourmalet. A narrow valley nestled in the heart of the Pyrenees which serves here Mongie, there Bagnères-de-Bigorre… the town and the ski resort which cradled the childhood of the President of the Republic. It was there that he regularly joined his grandparents for the holidays.
“As long as I'm here, I'm fine! We're good! ”He
blurted out as soon as he arrived in Sainte-Marie-de-Campan.
The rest of his trip will be like this little sentence.
A sort of day out of time.
A bubble impermeable to Covid, variants, and social discontent that is expressed in part of the country.
Far, very far from the seriousness displayed by the head of state
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