Emmanuel Macron plans to speak during a visit to the Louvre this Tuesday, January 28, he could make announcements there concerning a new “major presidential project”.
Weakened by the political crisis that erupted after the dissolution of the National Assembly last June, Emmanuel Macron is taking a step back from political issues and leaving it to his successive Prime Ministers to find a way to move forward. But the President of the Republic does not want to be inactive and keeps control over certain issues: international politics and some “major presidential projects”. Among the latter, the renovation and reopening of Notre-Dame-de-Paris attracted attention. And the head of state seems to have found his next project: the Louvre museum.
Emmanuel Macron plans to go to the Parisian museum, the most visited in the world, and give a speech this Tuesday, February 28, according to information from RTLconfirmed by BFMTV. A visit organized only a few days after the director of the establishment Laurence des Cars sounded the alarm about the state of decrepitude of the Louvre. In a note dated January 13 consulted by The Parisianthe director of the museum reported “the multiplication of damages in sometimes very degraded spaces”, “the obsolescence (of) technical equipment” or even “worrying temperature variations endangering the state of conservation of the works ” to the Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati.
The message would have gone higher than the Ministry of Culture and even as far as the Elysée since, according to RTLEmmanuel Macron is closely following this issue. He has already gone to the Louvre museum to see the extent of the damage alongside Laurence des Cars. He would now like to respond to the concerns of the museum director, who is asking for sufficient financial support to restore the Louvre and ensure its sustainability.
-The Louvre, a new Notre-Dame?
Has Emmanuel Macron already planned measures to respond to the difficulties of the Louvre? Does he plan to make concrete announcements during his speech on January 28? His entourage keeps secret what the President of the Republic might say, but he confirms that the museum should be the subject of a “major presidential project”, like Notre-Dame-de-Paris before him.
The Head of State was indeed fully involved in the issue of the famous cathedral of the French capital, from the day it went up in smoke, on April 15, 2019, to that of its reopening, on December 7, 2024. The On the evening of the tragedy he went there, canceled the broadcast of one of his speeches, and promised to rebuild Notre-Dame-de-Paris “because it is a part of French destiny”. The next day he set a goal, his goal: “I want it to be completed within five years.” A promise in which few believed, but kept five years and eight months later. A success that Emmanuel Macron followed in the smallest detail with no less than seven visits to the Notre-Dame construction site and which he takes at least partial credit for. With the reconstruction of the Parisian cathedral, the head of state hopes to leave a laudatory mark of his time at the Elysée since tarnished by repeated political failures. Does he want to make the Louvre a new opportunity to improve its image?
