REPORTAGE – As in every American election for 100 years, the oldest cocktail bar in Europe is organizing a fictitious vote for Americans expatriated or on vacation in France. In a century, the result has only differed from the official vote three times.
Red cap on his head, Tom wears a broad smile as he hesitantly slips a ballot into the ballot box, under the amused eye of his partner Megan. The couple from Minnesota, on vacation in Paris, have just voted for Kamala Harris. The setting, however, has nothing to do with an embassy. In the background, great Scottish whiskeys sit in a window: a Macallan from 1991, an 18-year-old Glenlivet… Behind, a mahogany bar polished by thousands of elbows stands below an imposing mirror where the name of the two candidates for the American presidential election associated with a number is written: Kamala Harris – 360 and Donald Trump – 383.
HM/Le Figaro
Like every four years for 100 years – with the exception of 2020, Covid obliges – Harry's bar has been organizing a «straw vote» (“straw vote”), a fictitious ballot during which Americans expatriated or passing through Paris can choose their future president. The rules are…
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