“Each president has his own little habits”: welcome aboard the head of state’s plane

Power has a geography.

First Parisian, with the Élysée, Matignon, the National Assembly, the Senate and the Quai d'Orsay.

To these nerve decision-making centers, well identified by the general public, are added prestigious monuments, such as the Louvre or Notre-Dame, and the provincial state residences, of Souzy-la-Briche (Essonne), resort for use of the Prime Minister since 2007, or Chambord (Loir-et-Cher), former presidential hunting estate.

And then, there are these atmospheric places, where we smell a literary or even festive atmosphere: Saint-Germain-des-Prés and its intellectual elite, of course, but also the Lipp brasserie, now out of fashion , or the presidential stand of July 14, governed by a monarchical protocol, and that of the Stade de France, where politicians from all sides rub shoulders.

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