Emmanuel Macron: “My France”

I never feel more French than during the

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des joies, July 14, sporting events;

of memories, May 8, November 11;

militants in these times of electoral campaign: all count.

But some mark even more intensely.

Thus the verses sung in the courtyard of the Invalides during the tributes paid to Colonel Arnaud Beltrame, to the first masters Cédric de Pierrepont and Alain Bertoncello, to the thirteen soldiers who fell in Mali in November 2019. Thus poignant notes - cries - played in the courtyard of the Sorbonne in memory of Professor Samuel Paty.

So from the timeless interpretation of our anthem that I experienced in the summer of 2021 in the Marquesas archipelago, from the vibrations of the island of Hiva Oa in the summer of 2021. As if, proclaimed so far from Paris, in the middle of the Pacific, the words of Rouget de Lisle resounded even more strongly.

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