Brigitte Macron and Didier Deschamps were the exceptional guests of Marie-Sophie Lacarrau’s news this Wednesday.
The First Lady and the coach of the Blues spoke about the Yellow Pieces 2025 operation.
But they did not avoid other subjects, such as the future of the Blues coach, who took the opportunity to make an important announcement.
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The 1 p.m.
It is a meeting that is now well established in the habits of the French. For the 36th year in a row, the famous little piggy banks from the Yellow Coins operation are making their return, from this Wednesday, January 8 and until February 8, in post offices, hospitals, schools, businesses, always in order to collect donations for the benefit of the Hospital Foundation. Its president, Brigitte Macron, and the prestigious sponsor of the operation, Didier Deschamps, were, on this occasion, the guests of Marie-Sophie Lacarrau on the 1 p.m. news on TF1. Review of their responses.
A song for Operation Yellow Pieces
Brigitte Macron : “It’s going to be called ‘Les petits soleils’. When I saw the lyrics and heard the music, I realized that we didn’t have an anthem. You’ll see, with all these young people who perform it, we want to take it back. It’s something that gets into your head a little.”
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Didier Deschamps : “It’s important to bring joy into a difficult daily life. Every time we go to meet sick children with Brigitte, there are smiles. They exude happiness. They need daily support, but also enchanted parentheses.”
The priorities of Operation Yellow Pieces in 2025
Brigitte Macron : “The first is bringing families together. Houses and rooms designed so that families can stay side by side. Ultimately, this is the DNA of our Foundation. In passing, I would like to thank Ms. Chirac because she started all of this. I have a very special thought for her today. Then, since last year, we have also been helping to create adolescent centers. the website of the Fondation des Hôpitaux, there There is probably one near you. We will create more. Open the door and you will be able to be helped, listened to, in the legal, medical or psychological field. You will meet other young people and their parents there. faced with so many problems of addiction, harassment, suffering, that everyone is a little overwhelmed. I believe that we need not only platforms, but also physical places. The adolescent center is one of them.
The commitment of Didier Deschamps
Didier Deschamps : “I am very sensitive, and I always have been, to the cause of childhood, being a father myself. These families in very complicated situations, sometimes with one or two children affected, need support. “Listening is essential because they feel alone.”
Brigitte Macron : “We don’t imagine what we call invisible care. We don’t measure the work of associations, like the Pink Blouses or the School at the Hospital. It’s enormous. Thanks to them, life between at the hospital. We are also financing more and more respite stays. Families need them.
The generosity of the French in a difficult context
Brigitte Macron : “What happened during Covid with the Foundation was colossal. For months, they wanted to help this or that hospital, it’s crazy, the love they have for caregivers. I have received many testimonies about the importance of health, the French, when we need them, they are there.”
The anger of the French after the dissolution
Brigitte Macron : “I feel them anguished, a little lost… They need meaning. They don’t really understand what’s going on. Where France speaks to me best is when I travel. Abroad, France seems like a land of plenty, where we have health, education, we are helped, we have everything Sometimes, I really want to record them to make them heard at home. So we all need to talk together, whatever our ideas, even if they are very different. We must be able to talk about everything to see how to move forward collectively. Because our country is like no other. It’s true that before, when we had a job, we managed to find housing, to feed ourselves, to offer a future to our children. Now, they are no longer even sure. So we have to find out how to help them. guarantee a future They are very anxious about the future because. that they do not understand the present.”
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The possible resignation of Emmanuel Macron
Brigitte Macron : “He himself used the term political fiction. He has already said that he would go to the end. This is the mission given to him by the French. It is close to his heart, even if it is It’s hard to imagine. He’s been in this position for eight years. I’ve never seen him completely unplug, even for a day. He’s concerned about absolutely everything. French I can’t say if he is. right or wrong, it’s not my subject, but I can say his daily life and I can say that his daily life is the French.
Emmanuel Macron’s state of mind
Brigitte Macron : “He hasn’t changed but let’s say that sometimes what he hears hurts him. It’s very difficult, but he keeps it to himself. Before, he spoke much more easily. Now, he doesn’t say it . I understand that because if there is one thing that Emmanuel deserves, it is respect.”
Emmanuel Macron’s regrets after the dissolution
Brigitte Macron : “I think that it is History which will ultimately give the meaning of this dissolution. Whether it was necessary to do it or not to do it. There, we are in the middle of upheavals, our noses a little too much in the way, if you allow me the expression. I have to see what happens next. He explained it to me. think about it. I never said it and I will never say it. Some newspapers attribute sentences to me that I don’t say. I never told anyone what I thought about that. When you have a quote in quotation marks next to it. ‘a close one’tell yourself that as a general rule, loved ones do not speak. Besides, I would like to have the right to reply to these sentences.”
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The future of Didier Deschamps at the head of the French team
Didier Deschamps : “I don’t feel the desire to extend my contract beyond its expiration in 2026. I’m not here to make an announcement, but I’ve been in the job since 2012 and I’m scheduled until the next World Cup It will stop there. It has to stop at some point, even when it’s good things. In fact, it can be an announcement (laughs). I’ve done my time, with the same desire, the same passion to keep the French team at the highest level in 2026, it’s very good. There is a life after, I don’t know which one it will be, but it will be very good too. The end of my contract will be fourteen years. Is that a long time? Yes, but I’m not chasing them. The most important thing is that the French team stays there. peak where it has been for many years.”
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The life of Brigitte Macron at the Élysée
Brigitte Macron : “I am resolutely happy. Every day, it is an honor to be there, above all. I meet extraordinary people every day. It is a very beautiful house. Everything I heard at the The outside does not correspond at all to what I experience inside.”
Their wishes for 2025
Brigitte Macron : “That we come together, beyond our opinions, beyond everything. Because I believe that in scattered ranks, we will not succeed. And that there be a common will, for this country, to be together. Whatever I can do for that, I will do it. Well, I don’t have a lot of means (laughs) but, for me, it’s a magnificent country.”
Didier Deschamps : “Considering all the conflicts that there are throughout the world today, there is peace. With peace, we can move forward, discuss even if we do not agree. Peace above all.”
