Jacques Serais, edited by Alexandre Dalifard / Photo credit: ARTUR WIDAK / ANADOLU AGENCY / ANADOLU AGENCY VIA AFP 20:05 pm, June 05, 2023

On Monday, the French president went to Mont-Saint-Michel to celebrate the millennium of the abbey. During his trip to Normandy, Emmanuel Macron is working to praise the eternal France. In addition, this meeting was an opportunity for him to respond to rumors of tensions with Elisabeth Borne.

A president who came to celebrate the millennium of the abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel and who makes this trip a political symbol. And as if it were a question of sending a postcard to the French, but especially to his opponents, the head of state spins the metaphor. "It is a place that is at the heart of our history, which teaches us this spirit of resistance, which we have always had, and of elevation. This is the teaching of Mont-Saint-Michel," Macron said during his trip.

"Giving strength to meet major challenges"

The elevation on the eve of a new day of mobilization against the pension reform, or how Emmanuel Macron is now working to extol the eternal France. "This spirit, if I may say so, must give us the strength to meet the great challenges that are ours. We can either sink into a kind of declinism, fear, anxiety or confrontation, or consider that our history teaches us that we have always known, by looking far, to feed on these moments of tension to build something greater than us, "says the President of the Republic.

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This meeting was an opportunity for him to respond to rumors of tensions with Elisabeth Borne. "What we wanted to create with the Prime Minister is not even literature but lapping. And so we have something else to do in front of such places than to comment on that. But here too, we need rigor because otherwise, we create soap bubbles and there is not even foam anymore, "insists the head of state. The president who, after a crowd bath among tourists, said these words during his speech: "This place brings us back to those confluences of the past that allow us to embrace the future without dividing ourselves." On Tuesday, his Norman journey will end on the landing beaches.