(29.6.2017) French far-left lawmakers said on Thursday they would boycott President Emmanuel Macron‘s speech to both houses of parliament in the majestic palace of Versailles next Monday, accusing him of acting like a Pharaoh.
Joint sessions of parliament, known as a Congress, are rare and take place in the sumptuous palace of France’s former kings built at Versailles outside Paris by Louis XIV to symbolise absolute power.