Calamy, Jaoui, Podalydès, Michalik… In Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire’s support committee resembles a festival

The list looks like the nominees for a Caesar category. Or the casting of Cédric Klapisch’s next film (the director is also part of the support committee). One week before the first round of the municipal elections, Emmanuel Grégoire’s camp addressed the New Observer the names of artists supporting his candidacy, alongside personalities from civil society.

Bastien Bouillon, César for Most Promising Actor who currently plays a precarious writer, rubs shoulders with successful playwright Alexis Michalik, the sparkling actress Camille Chamoux, the face of French comedies Laure Calamy and Sara Giraudeau, spy of the Legends Office . Emmanuel Grégoire will also receive the votes of Denis Podalydès, who recently played François Mitterrand on screen and Agnès Jaoui, accomplice of the late Jean-Pierre Bacri.

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Support from Patrick Boucheron

This list also includes the director Stanislas Nordey, who has previously invested in the Théâtre national de Strasbourg and the Odéon in Paris. Beyond the stage, Emmanuel Grégoire receives the support of a master of documentary photography, Raymond Depardon. The author of the official photos of François Hollande at the Élysée is also the first to have filmed behind the scenes of a presidential campaign, in 1974.

Following in the procession is Éva Jospin, daughter of Lionel, one of the prominent names in the sculpture, and the novelist Laurent Gaudé. Goncourt Prize for high school students in 2002, Goncourt Prize in 2004. This helping hand addressed to the former first deputy is reminiscent of that received by Anne Hidalgo and Bertrand Delanoë. It also matches previous commitments posted by the artists in question.

Cédric Klapisch supported the outgoing mayor in 2014. Just like Agnès Jaoui. Laure Calamy gave her voice three years ago against the pensions project, when Stanislas Nordey joined forces with those of the yellow vests – through a platform in Liberation. Denis Podalydès, the amazing Sarkozy of the film The Conquestvoted for François Hollande in 2017.

No wonder, either, that Patrick Boucheron supports Emmanuel Grégoire. The medievalist and professor at the Collège de France, committed designer of the 2024 Olympics ceremony, signed a column in favor of the union of the left with a view to the 2024 legislative elections. Before, according to his own words, voting for the New Popular Front.

The hesitations of Enrico Macias

In 2014, when Anne Hidalgo was preparing to seize City Hall, her support committee also included the names of the late Jean-Pierre Bacri and Jean-Pierre Marielle, but also Enrico Macias. The same singer went all smiles, in October 2025, to the inauguration of the campaign HQ of LR candidate Rachida Dati. Contradictory, Enrico Macias?

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“In 2014, I supported Anne Hidalgo for mayor of Paris. She is from Andalusia, we hit it off, I told her I would do it and I kept my word. Many people were mad at me, and in particular Carla (Bruni-Sarkozy, Editor’s note), who gave me a hard time.”he confided to Figaro in 2017. The champion of pied-noir culture has only ever hidden his only compass – he has sung it enough! – was affection.

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“Today, I will no longer commit myself, I have given enough. I don’t deny my friends, but I no longer want to be in politics”said the man who applauded Mitterrand before singing the praises of Nicolas Sarkozy. Fortunately for Changer Paris, Enrico Macias knows how to contradict himself. With director and ex-Nul Dominique Farrugia, the singer is one of the rare arts personalities to appear alongside the former Minister of Culture. Pierre-Yves Bournazel (Horizons) and Sophia Chikirou (LFI) have not made known the list of their supporters among the artists.