Posted on 10/06/2025 3:21:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Summary
PARIS, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Hours after his latest prime minister was forced to resign — unable to form a cabinet that lasted more than a day — French President Emmanuel Macron was spotted walking alone by the Seine in the chilly autumn morning.
Bodyguards kept their distance ahead and behind as he wandered out through a wrought iron gate onto the stone embankment in a black overcoat.
The scene, captured from afar on video and shown on French TV, evoked images of Charles de Gaulle seeking solace in the wind-swept plains of Ireland after his resignation in the late 1960s — a leader retreating inward as his political era drew to a close.
Macron is president until 2027, but the resignation of Sebastien Lecornu, his fifth prime minister in two years, has raised the chances that the one-time golden boy of French politics fails to make it to the end of his final term.
Macron appeared determined to avoid that fate on Monday, giving Lecornu two days for last-ditch talks with the opposition to try to chart a path out of the morass.
By asking Lecornu to give it one last shot, Macron signalled his distaste for the only other options he faces - fresh parliamentary elections that could hand power to the far right, or his own resignation, a measure he has repeatedly ruled out.
As his options have narrowed, the unpopular Macron has become increasingly isolated domestically, watching erstwhile allies distance themselves as they seek to bolster their own chances of succeeding him in the 2027 election.
Nearly half of French people blame Macron for the...
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Won't happen even if that is what the majority of the population is voting for. They'll just ban National Rally candidates from running for President.
What do the French-speaking French really believe, enough that they would die for it?
Couldn’t happen to a more feckless guy. Resign and let some other idiotic Frenchman take over. You’re country is dying and whoever gets the job next is overseeing a dead corpse, being ravaged by an ever growing muslim parasitic scavengers. Once a great Western nation, now....sputtering while imploding.
Que triste. / non
If this story is supposed to elicit sympathy, it ain’t working.
He gave the nation’s money to Zelensky.
it is very sad he did not run into a group of geographically displaced teenagers.
There was a poignant story in New York Magazine in 1974 “The Nixon Blues” which said he got up in the middle of the night with the lights still off in the White House and went to the grand piano to play melancholy songs as he faced having to resign due to pressure. Illustration artwork showed a blue background and shadowy blue and black shading.
Sad time.
Bodyguards.
How nice.
Too bad the common people don’t get them.
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> Macron wanders alone by the Seine… <
That was dangerous. Macron could have been attacked by a roving Muslim gang. I blame Macron’s dominant husband for letting him wander away like that.
(I’m probably going to get on an EU arrest list for saying that. Oh, well.)
Laurel and Hardy joined the French Foreign Legion ,LOL
He can go back to being a boy-toy and slap-around door mat.
Macron is tried to jail his biggest opponent Marine Le Pen. He had a sham trial for her and she is banned for running for office for 5 years.
“ French President Emmanuel Macron was spotted walking alone by the Seine in the chilly autumn morning.”
Which is what any sad, confused beta male does after getting bitch-slapped by his wife/mom before breakfast.
(Make sure you spell “VanShuyten” correctly, Surete)
“What do the French-speaking French really believe, enough that they would die for it?”
Other Frenchmen’s money, just like the commies here.
—”Sad time.”
It could be worse, like Inspector Javert.
A man of honor, perhaps too much so.
I still feel bad about his death.
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