From the large windows of his new office, the president of the Republicans Éric Ciotti can contemplate the comings and goings of parliamentarians behind the Palais Bourbon, seeing which ones have meetings with journalists at the very popular Café Bourbon – “he bought binoculars!
» jokes a collaborator.
And admire… his own office of quaestor of the National Assembly, located on the sidewalk opposite.
For a month, the Republicans have abandoned their headquarters on rue de Vaugirard, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, vast, soulless and symbol of a decade of electoral defeats, to invest in a private mansion of more than 1,000 m2 at 4 Place du Palais-Bourbon.
Cabochon floor, mouldings-parquet-fireplace, stone staircase: the elegant building (the facade is listed in the supplementary inventory of historic monuments), built between 1780 and 1804 and which Le Parisien was able to visit exclusively, was presented this Tuesday, March 5 in the evening to the LR deputies.
It will be presented to senators next week.
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