In East Jerusalem Emmanuel Macron spiritual stroll shakes up protocol and habits - The French president’s visit was marked on Wednesday by a slight incident with Israeli security agents who hindered him from entering the Sainte-Anne church, French territory in the old city.

Dizziness from improvisation. Smiling, without hurrying, Emmanuel Macron strolled through the old city of East Jerusalem on Wednesday, January 22. Where each stone is a litigation, where each wall says a conflict, where laughter penetrates so little because everyone lives in the shadow of a god, the French president decided to pay tribute to the three monotheisms. In its own way: by its own will, by shaking up the protocol, by playing with the effect of surprise and image.

East Jerusalem Emmanuel Macron spiritual stroll

The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, then the esplanade of the Mosques, and finally the Wailing Wall. So many sites not provided for in the program. “In this small place, so many great spurts! "Said the head of state. The message was walking in itself, spiritual roaming, each step of which was a postcard for history. The same stages as those traveled by Jacques Chirac, in October 1996.

Emmanuel Macron could have let the place speak, be content with a few questions to his successive guides. Christians, Muslims and Jews, they opened to him, each in turn, the book of their history. But the president also appreciated the crowd, his hands outstretched, the arrests, sometimes stopping in front of the microphones. " President ! "," Yellow vests! "," Justice for Sarah Halimi! "Or" Go OM! Shouted a few French-speaking Jewish believers, at the foot of the Wall, where so many murmured or mute prayers are addressed, on an ordinary day.

"I wanted to walk freely," said the president, who greeted many merchants and visitors before discovering the Holy Sepulcher in the Christian quarter, accompanied by religious representatives. The tourists, dumbfounded to meet him, were also annoyed at not being able to access the place. The Israeli police, the mistress of this old city conquered in 1967, was ready to hurry, in these so sensitive alleys where no overflow is tolerated. >>

The last parade of Jean Paul Gaultier, show of force of an era and a style

Surrounded by a host of guests, the 67-year-old couturier presented an abundant collection on Wednesday at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.

Fashion lives to the rhythm of specific moments, fanfare and grand finals, thunderous solos and soporific intermissions. The history of the environment is marked by these pivotal moments that made it fall into another era. These parades, scandals, or withdrawals are numerous, and easily identifiable. Also, the press release sent Friday January 17 by the house of Jean Paul Gaultier left no doubt as to its event nature. Signed by the designer himself, he said: "On January 22, 2020, I will celebrate my 50th career in fashion with a major Haute Couture fashion show at the Théâtre du Chatelet. It will also be my last show. "

However, the eminently sober announcement did not mask the sensational aspect. Because Jean Paul Gaultier's withdrawal from the catwalks is in fact part of the big announcements that the community cherishes, and celebrates with emotion: the 2002 press conference where Yves Saint Laurent announced his retirement from haute couture, then his parade-retrospective a few weeks later in Beaubourg; farewells by Christian Lacroix in 2009, in the same Parisian museum; or the decision, in September 2014, of Jean Paul Gaultier to abandon his ready-to-wear activities to focus on haute couture, which he had launched in 1997.