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What’s cooking in Paris: Macron’s cordon bleu

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Published: August 19th, 2022,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

By Claire Stam
Schwarz-weiß Portrait von Claire Stam

Cordon bleu Parisian style or an anecdote that went down in the annals of political history: During the 2017 presidential campaign, more precisely on the Sunday of the first round of voting, candidate Emmanuel Macron and his team took a lunch break at a highway rest stop. Which meal do they choose? „I like cordon bleu,“ said Emmanuel Macron. The waitress replies: „That’s part of the children’s menu…“.

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