PARIS, May 29 — From cooking for dictators to rushing to accommodate Barack Obama’s love of cheese — a collection of French state dinner menus offered a unique insight into...
The menu during a state dinner with French President and his South African counterpart, at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris in 2016. — AFP picPARIS, May 29 — From cooking for dictators to rushing to accommodate Barack Obama’s love of cheese — a collection of French state dinner menus offered a unique insight into 150 years of diplomatic and gastronomic history on Wednesday.
They offer a who’s who of royalty, statesmen and dictators, from John F Kennedy and Nelson Mandela to Saddam Hussein and Vladimir Putin — right up to the sumptuous meal at Versailles for King Charles III last year. They hint at the complex logistics that surround diplomatic moments — such as the commemorations for the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in 2014 when then-president Francois Hollande had to dash from a meal with Obama to another with Putin.
“We see the evolution of international relations. Visits at the end of the 19th century were much rarer, so they were exceptional events with several meals at the Elysee, sometimes at Versailles... often with military parades and a programme of opera or theatre,” said Millon.
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