Suddenly, the High Assembly was overcome with laughter. The one who made the senators present in the hemicycle laugh is not a known comedian but… Bruno Le Maire.
The Minister of Economy and Finance read from the podium the Prime Minister’s general policy declaration that Gabriel Attal was delivering at the same time to the National Assembly. It was at the turn of a sentence stated by the boss of Bercy that the parliamentarians burst out laughing. “I was born in 1989,” he read.
1989. The year the head of government (and Taylor Swift) was born. Bruno le Maire was born 20 years earlier, when the Rolling Stones dominated the world. “Go ahead, Minister, I don’t, but go ahead,” laughed the President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher. “If only…” the minister continued, smiling, to the applause of the senators.