“Yes I know, the encyclical girl in her office…”

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The new Star of Ecologists, which should be re -elected at the head of its party this week, is a practicing Catholic as fervent as it is discreet.

Patrons of the CAC 40, some ministers, entrepreneurs and artists … On this evening in November 2024, at the Museum of Fair Arts in Paris, they are nearly 500 decision -makers to hurry at the second edition of the Dinner of Builders. The ambition of this new meeting which claims to be apolitical: to push Catholic leaders from all horizons to engage more and to make it known. Around the rectangular tables, we meet the ultra -conservative magnate Vincent Bolloré, the Minister of Agriculture Annie Genevard, some archbishops well in court and all “A bourgeoisie with cultural codes of the traditional Church”tells a guest. That evening, a young woman seems not to be quite in her place: Marine Tondelier, the chief of the Ecologists.

The event organizers had spotted her for a long time and were delighted to receive it. “You imagine the strength of the message if you manage to bring together Murdelier and Bolloré in the same room”breathes a working ankle of the evening. At this community dinner, the boss of the Greens came with the ambition to confront radically different ideas from his and the desire to get out of his bubble. She returned Tourneboulée. «…