It is no insult to Florence Mangin, 63, to note that her fight for equality at the Quai d'Orsay has paid off.
She who never ceased to ask for the promotion of women to positions of responsibility was from May 2019 to March 2022 the first ambassador of France to Portugal.
With her arrival last March at the Embassy to the Holy See in Rome, this determined woman with a precise mind crowns today a career whose DNA will have been Europe, but also, in the East. of the latter, its post-Soviet conflicts whose aftershocks threaten its members today.
Also, when Florence Mangin was appointed Villa Bonaparte in Rome, she already knew that the aggression of Ukraine by the Russian army, which had just begun, would be the key chapter of her mandate.
As the function requires, she will have to decode pontifical diplomacy, the words of Pope Francis having, for several months, seemed to maintain a certain equidistance between the aggressor and the attacked, at the risk of arousing…
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