You might think that a meeting of junior ministers at France’s Élysée Palace is nothing to get excited about. But French president Emmanuel Macron’s black labrador-griffon, Nemo, apparently found talk of inner-city investment a little too exciting late last month.
It seems that during the meeting, Nemo took the opportunity to relieve himself on one of the palace’s ornamental fireplaces. We know this not because of a helpful Fusion GPS dossier, but because TV cameras happened to be there for a photo op.
The Guardian reports: “Nemo brought a whole new meaning to the term presidential leaks . . . when he cocked his leg for a long and abundant wee against an ornamental fireplace in Macron’s gilded office during a filmed meeting between the president and junior ministers.” So much for French savoir-faire.
It’s not known if Nemo was punished for his faux pas. But this being France, one wonders if there is palace intrigue. After all, Nemo is a recently acquired shelter dog who, as the BBC notes, “had been abandoned in Tulle, in the southern Corrèze region, the home base of Mr. Macron’s predecessor, François Hollande.” What a conspiracy it would be if the pup has been planted as part of a—zut alors!— dirty tricks campaign.
