Macron sings ‘La Bohème’ with the Armenian prime minister on drums

After the mirrored glasses at the Davos summit, which immediately became a meme, the French president,Emmanuel Macronis also confirmed aYerevan un leader capable of ‘piercing’ social media.

Yesterday, after being awarded theOrder of Honorby his Armenian counterpartVahagn Khachaturyanand having participated in onestate dinnerMacron ha the cantata ‘The Bohemian’ by Charles Aznavour,accompanied by a pianist and… the Armenian prime ministerNikol Pashinyanexperimented with thedrums.

Between the symbols of the French song, Aznavour, son of Armenian immigrants and born Shahnourh Aznavourianis a common heritage, a symbol of the very close bond between the two nations.

The Armenian genocide

France was one of the countries that, at the time of Armenian genocidethe more it spent to condemn one of the greatest horrors in the history of the last century, and then became, in 2001, the first chancellery to officially recognize it. One of the most beautiful squares in Yerevan is named after France and the largest Armenian community in Europe lives in France, 400 thousand people, the third in the world after those hosted by Russia and the United States.
During the evening Khachaturyan played another classic of French music on the piano, “Les Feuilles Mortes” by Yves Montand. “Armenia is Europe’s natural partner,” Macron said. And one song was enough to prove it.

The morning jog

This morning, however, the French president allowed himself onejogaccompanied by an escort, through the streets ofcityanother moment that quickly found space on thesocial networks.