Bruno Roger-Petit, memory advisor to the Head of State, invited the niece of Marine Le Pen and figure of the extreme right with identity to a Parisian restaurant.
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Lunch took place on October 14, at the Le Dôme brasserie, in Paris. Bruno Roger-Petit, one of Emmanuel Macron’s oldest collaborators at the Elysée Palace, and Marion Maréchal, former Member of Parliament for Vaucluse, shared a meal, in the small confidential lounge of this Montparnasse brasserie where we can enter from the back of the establishment and sit down far from prying eyes. This is also where François Mitterrand met his daughter, Mazarine, in the 1980s, after school, when the general public was still unaware of his existence.
According to a regular at the restaurant, which had not seen Jean-Marie Le Pen’s granddaughter enter, lunch ended at 2 p.m. The president’s adviser paid the bill, and neither the report of the exchanges nor the holding of this meeting filtered out of the Elysee Palace. What did Bruno Roger-Petit expect from this meeting? Discuss about Marine Le Pen? Take the pulse of Marion Maréchal’s political ambitions? Review the candidacies for the “right of the right”, which Emmanuel Macron and his strategists hope will be as numerous as possible? The young director of Issep, the Institute of Social, Economic and Political Sciences that she founded in Lyon, herself did not quite understand why the advisor wanted to meet her and what he wanted from her. /
Marion Maréchal has no problem confirming the appointment. “Bruno Roger-Petit went through a friend to offer to meet me. I accepted: I never refuse to discuss on principle. Especially since I was quite curious to know the one who had fun calling me a Nazi every two weeks when I was a member of parliament. “
Reached by Le Monde on Sunday afternoon, Bruno Roger-Petit did not deny having met Marion Maréchal. “On a personal basis,” he insists. “I wanted to know what she had to say and if she resonated with the state of opinion – which it doesn’t. I must have found that we disagreed. little what Xavier Bertrand did when he met Eric Zemmour “, defends himself the advisor of Emmanuel Macron by comparing this lunch with that held recently by the president of the Hauts-de-France region with the columnist of Figaro.
“Triangulate”
Since the summer of 2017, councilor Bruno Roger-Petit, “BRP” as everyone calls it, has only come into the light once , one morning in July 2018, when he was spokesperson for the Elysée and he had been charged, a thankless task, to come and bring the Elyos voice live on the Benalla affair, named after this former collaborator of the Elysee Palace filmed molesting a protester. Now a “memory advisor” to Emmanuel Macron, responsible in particular for historical commemorations, Bruno Roger-Petit actually continues to distribute elements of language on all subjects to journalists and, above all, observes the emerging subjects with a magnifying glass, eyes riveted on the networks but also morning and evening on the continuous news channel CNews, while regularly exchanging texts with the president.
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