The timing is not badly chosen.While social offshore grows in France, work started at the Elysée on November 22.They must last until January 15.These have been announced for a long time: as of September, the executive said that Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron wanted to give a facelift to the presidential palace.
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500.Euros
Le Figaro explains that the carpet, the curtains, the hangings and the seat of the seats will be changed.A site that mobilizes 120 people.Estimated cost: 500.Euros.And that's the rub.The cost has never been hidden by the Elysée, who had assured that the work would be funded in part by the sale of derivative products, mocked during their presentation a few months ago.
But on social networks, many voices rise in the face of what some call ""decoration work"" and their cost, while the drop in purchasing power is one of the problems pointed out by ""yellow vests"".
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""Very Pompidolian""
Not enough to disturb Brigitte Macron, who explains on this work in the columns of the world dated November 30.""It felt like the Elysée had become a fortress that was protecting itself from the outside.We will lighten, purify.Light must between "", justifies the first lady.The world explains that ""the changes are already visible"", citing carpets, chairs, offices, tapestries or paintings that have been moved, rendered to the differences organizations responsible for their conservation, or which have simply arrived to embellish the'Elysium.
It should be noted that many elements are only loaned to the presidential couple, which displayed their taste for modern art of the first half of the 20th century and contemporary art.""The president wants what is happening outside will be seen inside, that the building is his time.He thinks that, if we fear art, we will not move society.It's very Pompidolian, ""explains Pierre-Olivier Costa, director of the Brigitte Macron cabinet to the world.""Pompidolian"" or not, these works fall to the worst of moments ...
With capital, the Elysée explains that this project was urgent.""It is the Court of Auditors who says it, explains an advisor.There are water infiltrations, we sometimes have to put buckets.The predecessors of Emmanuel Macron did not take their responsibilities by not renovating the buildings.""
