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Macron ends his American tour “among friends” in New Orleans

2022-12-03T01:37:46.237Z


The president concluded his state visit on Friday with a stopover in Louisiana, where there are 200,000 French speakers. There he met the boss of Twitter, Elon Musk.


Special Envoy to New Orleans

Emmanuel Macron has chosen New Orleans, the most French of American cities, to end his state visit to the United States, leaving aside for a moment the heavy files of the bilateral relationship for a final

“among friends”.

"It was 1976 the last time, it's been a long time,"

he said Friday evening (in the night in France) to the Louisianans gathered to listen to him in the great hall of the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA).

He was referring to the last visit of a French head of state, that of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in 1976, himself following in the footsteps of Charles de Gaulle in 1960. Like them, President Macron was welcomed with warmth and enthusiasm, a parenthesis in the harshness of politics which he did not hesitate to take full advantage of.

A “clear and frank discussion” with Elon Musk

"I feel like I'm at home, really,"

said the head of state, evoking

"a familiar strangeness"

in this city founded in 1717 by the Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne...

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Source: lefigaro

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