{"id":22093,"date":"2025-04-30T09:10:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T09:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/macron-surprises-a-provincial-bar\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T09:10:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T09:10:19","slug":"macron-surprises-a-provincial-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/macron-surprises-a-provincial-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron Surprises a Provincial Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cBonjour, Macron!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At Le Prem\u2019s, a small bar in western France that sells lottery tickets and tobacco, this greeting has become a running joke since President Emmanuel Macron dropped by unannounced the other day and bought a round of coffee for everyone, save the customers who opted for a bracing midmorning sauvignon blanc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe did not come to scratch!\u201d said Christophe Jacques, the cheerful bar owner, alluding to the betting games he offers on scratch cards, where winning numbers are revealed by scratching off an opaque covering. \u201cHe came to chat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Chat the president did, for more than an hour, about health care and jobs and salaries and other day-to-day concerns of an anxious French people. Perched on a bar stool against a backdrop of cigarette packets warning, \u201cSMOKING DIMINISHES FERTILITY,\u201d he seemed happy to shoot the breeze. It was a break for Mr. Macron from <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/04\/world\/europe\/eu-defense-spending.html\" title=\"\">building Europe into a credible military power<\/a>, now that the United States often seems less friend than foe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some regulars \u2014 and the bar has many, especially among retirees \u2014 were so shocked that they initially thought he was a Macron doppelg\u00e4nger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI was studying the form for a horseracing bet, turned around and was face to face with Macron!\u201d said Jean-Claude Turpault, a farmer. \u201cCould not believe it. I\u2019d imagined him more arrogant, but he was easy to talk to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A screen showed horse races. Newspapers hung from a rack, looking like relics. A scratch card game called \u201cCarats\u201d did a brisk business. Black-and-white postcards were on sale. Mr. Macron drank two espressos without sugar at the zinc bar, where people lingered. They were not in a hurry; there was nothing to hurry to. Le Prem\u2019s felt like the France of the movies, where romance is kindled in faded bars, minus the smoke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since taking office eight years ago, Mr. Macron has struggled to overcome an image of lofty remoteness, which has earned him the sobriquet \u201cJupiter.\u201d He has tried, but to little avail, various remedies, including a three-month listening and talking tour of the provinces after the Yellow Vest protests, sparked by a fuel price hike, erupted in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, dispensing with the press, with cameras, with his entourage and with any advance warning, Mr. Macron has taken to dropping in solo on random bars, mainly so-called \u201cPMU bar-tabacs,\u201d the only places in France licensed to sell tobacco and handle betting. They are distinguished by the orange diamond-like symbol on their facades, colloquially known as \u201cthe carrot.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">These outlets for gambling on horses and much else, while having a drink and enjoying what\u2019s left of community camaraderie, are often among the few commercial survivors in villages and small towns across France. Countless bakeries, cafes, post offices, train stations, banks and Mom-and-Pop stores have closed as online retail, big-box hypermarkets and pressure on municipal budgets have taken a toll.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Thouars, a town of 14,000 inhabitants with a pretty setting on the Thouet river, is no exception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The once bustling Rue St.-M\u00e9dard at its center is now a procession of shuttered stores. Alexandre Fleveau, a hotel owner, described the main square as \u201can airport parking lot\u201d before the centrist mayor, Bernard Paineau, embarked on a bid to \u201cvegetalize\u201d it with tree plantings and other improvements that, for now, have turned it into a construction site. A new cultural center, offering movies and exhibitions, will open soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI pay taxes for all the people here doing nothing, and there are a lot of them,\u201d said Mr. Jacques, the bar owner. He is looking to sell the bar and move to the Camargue region in southern France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Macron, with two years left in his presidency, wants to get close, at last, to the French people, who sometimes call him \u201cextraterrestrial\u201d for his technocratic and intellectual bent. The two French presidents most fondly remembered in recent decades are Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac, because they demonstrated a bond with the people \u2014 and the cattle \u2014 of France. The incumbent is aware of this.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe\u2019s looking for more proximity, simplicity, away from the cameras and media pools that make sincerity impossible,\u201d said a close adviser to Mr. Macron who requested the anonymity under which officials at the presidency customarily speak. \u201cPeople are worried by Putin, by Trump, by the cost of living, and he has a unique ability to reassure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For Mr. Macron\u2019s critics, and there are many, this is no more than \u201cauthenticity in kit form,\u201d <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lejdd.fr\/politique\/emmanuel-macron-au-pmu-la-proximite-en-trompe-loeil-156956\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">as the right-wing JDD Sunday newspaper put it<\/a> recently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Still, the Macron who pops in at Le Prem\u2019s feels different, a man who gives shorter speeches, projects authority in a crisis and devotes greater attention to the \u201cp\u00e9riph\u00e9rie,\u201d roughly, the flyover country, where a sense of abandonment has led voters to reject mainstream parties. Viewed as a lame duck last year after a succession of blunders, including an abrupt dissolution of Parliament that led to chaos, Mr. Macron has reacquired a raison d\u2019\u00eatre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Two recent polls, for the newspapers <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lefigaro.fr\/politique\/la-cote-de-popularite-de-macron-toujours-en-hausse-celle-de-bayrou-chute-20250331\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Le Figaro<\/a> and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ifop.com\/publication\/les-indices-de-popularite-avril-2025\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">JDD<\/a>, showed Mr. Macron\u2019s popularity surging four percentage points, to nearly 30 percent, a respectable showing in a country of strong egalitarian spirit, where scathing attacks on the president are a national pastime and single-digit approval ratings are not unknown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Although he is term-limited and toward the end of his presidency, Mr. Macron has assumed a more important role since President Trump took office because he is widely seen in France and beyond as one of the most experienced orchestrators of an effective European response to the new American distance from, and contempt for, the continent. Mr. Macron\u2019s quest for more contact, as in Thouars, forms part of his push for a rebirth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou know a barman has to be a psychologist, a confidant\u201d said Nicolas Cossard, who works at Le Prem\u2019s. \u201cYou listen to people newly widowed, to old people talking about their gardens, their billiards, their Bingo, their car. Macron has been absent for me. But when I shook his hand, my sense was he was not just trying to gain credit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Alain Duhamel, the author of a book about Mr. Macron, said that the French president had adjusted his style, if not his essence, to appear as \u201cthe sober rather than the theatrical seducer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Thouars, Mayor Paineau, who is also a successful entrepreneur, was alerted to Mr. Macron\u2019s visit when the president was already at the bar, so he rushed over, delaying his appearance at a lunch for older people. On leaving Le Prem\u2019s, Mr. Macron insisted on accompanying the mayor to apologize for the delay. He stayed through the meal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe band struck up the Marseillaise at the end, everyone rose, it was a moving moment,\u201d the mayor said. \u201cHe did not have to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Macron went on to visit Asselin, a local company that has provided beams for the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/12\/05\/arts\/design\/notre-dame-reopens-paris.html\" title=\"\">reconstruction of Notre-Dame Cathedral<\/a>. Thouars is struggling but not moribund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the bar, life goes on, albeit a little changed. An espresso is now known as a \u201cpetit Macron.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Jacques, warming to his role, said, \u201cWe are awaiting Putin next week.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/30\/world\/europe\/france-macron-bar.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBonjour, Macron!\u201d At Le 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