Macron's gilets jaunes speech is pivotal after Notre Dame disaster

[nitpicker]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/17/macrons-gilets-jaunes-speech-is-pivotal-after-notre-dame-disaster

Macron's gilets jaunes speech is pivotal after Notre Dame disaster

Jon Henley

Wed 17 Apr 2019 21.09 BST

The broadcast was ready to go. Emmanuel Macron’s address to the nation in response to months of protest and violence from the gilets jaunes (yellow vests) movement and the “great national debate” they sparked had been recorded that afternoon and was due to go live at 8pm.
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But just before 7pm, the first flames began licking the roof of Notre Dame Cathedral. After a moment’s hesitation, Macron pulled the broadcast, tweeting his sorrow “at seeing a part of us all burn this evening”.

Three hours later, he was on the steps of the cathedral, telling a shell-shocked nation that Notre Dame was France’s “history, our literature, the epicentre of our life, the cathedral of every French person”, and promising to rebuild it, “because it is what our history deserves, and it is our destiny”.

Analysts said that the dramatic blaze, and the extraordinary national outpouring of emotion that it provoked, could prove both a boon and a threat to the reformist, pro-business Macron, whose presidency was for a while on the ropes over the gilets jaunes crisis.
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[Pachamama]

1. The timing.....

[lapucelle]

2. Do you think the broadcast of Macron's speech shouldn't have been postponed the on Monday?

Minutes before receiving the news that Notre-Dame cathedral was consumed by flames French President Emmanuel Macron had recorded a solemn message to the nation.

But the highly-anticipated speech on Monday, in which he had planned to set out his recipe for ending five months of often violent "yellow vest" protests, never made it onto TV screens.

https://www.channelstv.com/2019/04/15/macron-cancels-major-policy-speech-over-cathedral-fire/

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Incendie à Notre-Dame: Macron annule son allocution et évoque « l’émotion de toute une nation »

Il a fallu réagir vite. Censé présenter ses réponses au grand débat et tenter de sortir de la crise des «gilets jaunes» lors d’une « adresse à la Nation » ce lundi soir, Emmanuel Macron a été rattrapé par l’actualité dramatique qui frappe actuellement la capitale. « En raison du terrible incendie qui ravage Notre-Dame-de-Paris, le président de la République a décidé de reporter son allocutio n», a indiqué l’Élysée dans un communiqué, ajoutant que le chef de l’État se rendait sur place.

http://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/le-scan/macron-regrette-le-terrible-incendie-qui-ravage-notre-dame-et-se-rend-sur-place-20190415

[Pachamama]

3. I have no opinion one way or the other - I find that the timing is fascinating n/t