French president Macron’s name was spelled with a ‘q’ (Maqron?) in Canadian French.

[ID and translation: French news article (from the 22nd of March 2023) with a headline that says "Mobilier national [National Movable Heritage] on strike: no red carpet for Charles III?"

Below is a picture of Charles III walking on a red carpet from another event.

Caption of the picture says: "Will Prince Charles have a red carpet underneath his feet upon his arrival in France this Sunday? Nothing could be less certain..."

On strike, the civil servants of the Mobilier national [National Movable Heritage] state they will not unroll the red carpet for the arrival of Charles III in France. /end ID]

This is admittedly quite funny and I've looked at the English news outlet that reported on this royal visit being impacted by our (french) general strike and this tidbit hasn't been mentioned, but I thought Tumblr folks might enjoy it.

The workers and their union are also empathetic about UK workers and notably commented: "Ce sera sans nous ! Nous sommes solidaires des travailleurs anglais, en particulier de la culture (British Museum, Wallace collection…), qui sont en grève depuis des semaines pour l’augmentation des salaires", a indiqué la CGT Culture."

[Translation: "This will happen without us! We are showing solidarity with British workers, especially those working in the cultural field (British Museum, Wallace collection...), who have been striking for weeks for better wages" said the CGT Culture (culture union).]

Another thing I find quite funny is our seemingly total lack of royal etiquette regarding vocabulary with old Charles never once being referred to as king :')

This wasn't mentioned in this particular article, but French people have also been upset because our president has planned a banquet in Versailles for Charles III and himself, and with the context of our general strike and Macron's authoritarian actions lately (he put something into law without letting our national assembly (aka parliament) vote on it and has since then pretended (during an official speech) that he was still very much working for the people and being democratic and has condemned the strike without acknowledging its reasons), this feels a bit too much and too royalist, and as we all know, French people don't like the monarchy very much (winkwink Revolution winkwink).

Jacques René Chirac was a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. Chirac was previously Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988, as well as Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995.

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