Invited Saturday of the Table des bons vivants, on Europe 1, Jean-Louis Debré told the last (and hearty) meal he had with the former President of the Republic.

It's no secret that Jacques Chirac was a good eater. Invited Saturday of the Table des bons vivants, on Europe 1, his friend Jean-Louis Debré has confirmed it once again. And he illustrated it by telling us the last (and hearty) meal he had with the former President of the Republic.

"It was to Father Claude, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, and he said to me, 'We're going to have lunch together, I'm hungry'," says this close friend of Jacques Chirac, bending over to the game. imitation. "He orders for me and says to me, 'we will put ourselves in the mouth, with a little black pudding, then an andouillette, after which six snails, and then we finish with a veal liver / mashed potato. no dessert! ", is often the former president of the Constitutional Council.

The calf's head is no

Jean-Louis Debré was a faithful Jacques Chirac, in politics as in cooking. "But there's one thing I've never been faithful to, it's the calf's head, I do not like it," says Jean-Louis Debré.

The occasion for him to specify, also, that he never appreciated the prestigious dinners in the presence of the big ones of this world. "It is too often an international cuisine that should please everyone," says Jean-Louis Debré, a great defender and amateur of French cuisine.