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It’s a bold gambit by the Americans, to conscionable the French successful an arena implicit which they person agelong been masters par excellence: vino and cheese.
But specified is Jill Biden’s sang-froid that she volition connection America’s champion to the French president, Emmanuel Macron, his wife, Brigitte Macron, and their entourage astatine a lavish White House meal connected Thursday – conscionable 1 of the elaborate details and invaluable gifts forming portion of the diplomatic creation surrounding this authorities visit.
As the Élysée Palace unveiled a database of gifts that Macron volition connection his American counterpart, Joe Biden, including a luxurious Christofle cup, the US president’s woman revealed the mounting and paper for the night’s gala dinner.
It volition beryllium served nether a ample structure successful the gardens, connected tables laden with candlesticks and flowers successful the colours of the 2 countries.
Lobster volition diagnostic – 200 unrecorded shellfish person made their past trip, to Washington – on with beef, squash from the White House garden, and cake, among different delicacies.
But the archetypal woman peculiarly insisted connected serving American cheeses, including a bluish food from north-western Oregon that was the archetypal American merchandise to triumph the satellite food championships, successful 2019.
The toasts volition beryllium served with an American sparkling vino – though successful glasses made successful France. And the evening volition beryllium hosted by Jon Batiste, the jazz instrumentalist from Louisiana, the erstwhile state ceded by France to the US, which Macron volition sojourn connected Friday.
The White House has not yet revealed what gifts it volition bestow connected Macron, but Paris has announced that helium volition contiguous Biden with the cupful from Christofle, the high-end tableware and jewellery institution that supplied the prestigious cruise liner Normandie, among different things.
As such, it is simply a notation to the transatlantic relationship. The archetypal voyage of the French vessel to New York was an planetary triumph successful 1935.
The French president besides took a vinyl grounds of the soundtrack of Claude Lelouch’s 1966 movie Un homme et une femme (A Man and a Woman) with him, and the film-maker himself was portion of the French delegation.
The opus of the aforesaid name, with its refrain Dabadabada (often retranslated Chabadabada), composed by Francis Lai, was awarded a Golden Globe astatine the time.
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