The announcement is not yet official, but is already raising eyebrows. Michel Sardou decorated with the Order of Merit, that raises many eyebrows. Especially since the interpreter of Be a woman should be honored with great pomp, that is to say by the President of the Republic himself.
Emmanuel Macron would, as a bonus, satisfy a little personal pleasure as a fan of the singer, if we are to believe those around him who claim that he warms up his voice by humming Vladimir Ilyich, a 1983 song denouncing the practice of communism in the USSR. The head of state also referred to the title of Michel Sardou The Two Schoolsto defend private institutes, in January, when Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, then Minister of Education, was discredited for having chosen to place her children in the private Catholic Stanislas high school and not in the public.
The Macronian “at the same time”
In 2022, during his presidential campaign, the one who won the election promised that gender equality would be a major cause of his second five-year term. Two years later, and after having officially given his support to Gérard Depardieu accused of rape, Emmanuel Macron once again finds himself in the heart of the “at the same time” which is dear to him: on the one hand letting slip an off suggesting the choice of Aya Nakamura to sing at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, and on the other the possibility of decorating with the Order of Merit an artist who has in his repertoire titles like Cities of great solitude.
It is also the words of this song that PS senator Laurence Rossignol noted. “I want to rape women, to force them to admire me.” We are reassured, it is just an expression of masculine unease. And it definitely deserves decoration! “, has she tweeted by taking the information from New Obs on the decoration of Michel Sardou who “was able to diagnose, decades before Michel Houellebecq, male discomfort in his texts”, according to a close friend of the President of the Republic.
Sandrine Rousseau, who is not in her first encounter with the singer, has also chosen irony. “The patriarchy will fall, it is already faltering. But they will all decorate each other first,” she said. writing on X/Twitter.
Journalist Hélène Devynck, who was among the women to file a complaint against Patrick Poivre d’Arvor for rape (a complaint dismissed due to statute of limitations), propose to “start by removing their medals from rapists like PPDA”, adding: “when he was interviewed after our complaints, he began by listing his decorations (legion of honor and merit) as proof of his respectability”.
What if, after updating the lyrics of his hit Be a woman in 2010, Michel Sardou proposed a 2024 version to celebrate his Order of Merit medal?