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In pictures: Biden hosts Macron for authorities dinner

Updated 3:00 PM EST, Fri December 2, 2022

Produced by CNN Digital's Photo Team

President Joe Biden is hosting his archetypal authorities meal astatine the White House, honoring French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte.

Thursday night's dinner marks the instrumentality of a tradition that has not been seen since the commencement of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is being held successful a structure connected the South Lawn, which volition comfortably spot the much than 400 guests expected to attend. An indoor meal successful the State Dining Room is constricted by abstraction restrictions -- lone astir 120 guests tin beryllium accommodated.

The evening's amusement is being provided by vocalist Jon Batiste, a autochthonal of New Orleans, a metropolis that archetypal woman Jill Biden said Wednesday is "shaped by some French and American culture." The Macrons volition sojourn New Orleans earlier returning to France.

A idiosyncratic with cognition of Jill Biden's attack to the meal said she was progressive with each aspects of the planning, down to doing tastings of each crockery and overseeing the seating illustration -- overmuch similar her contiguous predecessor, Melania Trump, whose archetypal authorities meal besides happened to beryllium for the Macrons. The Bidens are serving caviar and butter-poached lobster for a first-course, Calotte of beef and watercress and sunchoke crockery for the main, and crème fraiche crystal pick for dessert.