When a popular holiday is invited to the Elysée

Benjamin Calmels

“The Elysée  celebrates the music”: it is in these terms which the transitory website of the palace announced it on June 16th after France Info relayed information. Nearly 1500 people were likely to enter within the boundary of the Main courtyard and to dance to the rhythm of the electronic music this June 21st, 2018. These happy, I belong, was pressed to be registered with this extraordinary event and to obtain invaluable sesame.

Let us greet the organization of staff and police which allowed a relative fluidity of the queue in spite of many controls ô how much necessary. The appointment is given the crossing of the avenue of Marigny and the avenue of the Fields–Elysées at 18:00.

A wind of freshness and youth blows at the hour known as. All the age groups are represented and general mood is very jovial. Sun, although present, does not manage to counterbalance this small fresh air which will persist throughout the evening. We will not hold rigour of it at the summer.

The music resounds already out the walls of the palace. It can be surprising, a priori, to hear the sound of platinums in a place usually so protocolar, where the president of the Republic accommodates the Heads of foreign States. But it of it is nothing. Indeed, a long ago that the “French Touch” musical Frenchwoman allures an immense public and contributes to will have our country with the international one. Emmanuel Macron understood it well and wished to place it on this pedestal symbolically strong.

Thus back up invited artists like Chloé, Cezaire, Kiddy Spalls, Kavinsky and Busy P to come to occur on a scene installed on the perron of the Elysium. Acoustics appeared excellent, just as the games of light installed for the occasion. I could see Jack Lang, obviously delighted. The father of the Festival of the Music can be to trust of the way traversed by this event become extremely popular.

Brigitte Macron came to greet the curious ones at the beginning of evening. A refreshment bar, installed for the occasion, proposes snack bars and drinks without alcohol to us. One does not jest with the rules. The experiment is new, hope that it is renewed the next year.

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