And he raised eyebrows further by doing it in the language of les anglosaxons – too much for far-right leader Marine Le Pen, whose nationalist instincts are matched by a contempt for the European Union.
Presidential candidate Macron goes to Berlin to do a conference in English ... poor France!
“Presidential candidate Macron goes to Berlin to do a conference in English ... poor France!” she wrote on Tuesday in a tweet personally signed by her.
Responding to a tweeted suggestion that Macron’s language skills had upstaged his monolingual opponents, Le Pen’s loyal lieutenant Florian Philippot went further.
“He just shows that he has no respect for our language and that he doesn’t believe in France,” wrote the vice-president of the National Front party.
The French government fiercely protects the language of Moliere, spoken by more than 220 million people worldwide thanks to France’s colonial past.
