Emmanuel Macron continues the tradition.
For the fourth consecutive year, the Head of State celebrated the 77th anniversary of the liberation of Bormes-les-Mimosas (Var), marking the landing of Allied troops in August 1944 against the Nazis.
Each summer, the tenant of the Élysée also takes advantage of this speech to slip in some parallels with current events.
In 2018, after a summer marked by the Benalla affair, the tenant of the Élysée had thus devoted his first official outing to this trip.
He recalled the
"lesson in courage"
given by the soldiers of the time.
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A few months later, the “yellow vests” crisis fractured the country.
Social movement that Emmanuel Macron will once again evoke in his tribute to the landing of Provence in August 2019. He called on the French to
“reconcile”
after the
“difficult times”.
At the start of 2020, France, like all countries, was struck by a pandemic of unprecedented magnitude.
To curb the epidemic wave, Emmanuel
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