In Fribourg, the French occupation zone, the Minister of Veterans Affairs François MITTERRAND came to open the Congress of deportees of the Resistance. Comment on images of François MITTERRAND saluting the flag and then giving a speech.
Excerpt from the speech of François MITTERRAND, nominated candidate for the presidential elections, on the occasion of the extraordinary congress of the Socialist Party in Créteil. François MITTERRAND announced that he would be the candidate for the popular gatherings.
At the Bois de Vincennes is held the first Festival of Humanity since the Liberation. It brings together hundreds of thousands of Parisians. Marcel CACHIN, director of the newspaper "L'Humanité", Maurice THOREZ, general secretary of the French Communist Party, Jacques DUCLOS and of the Soviet uniforms.
Mr André MALRAUX, Minister of Culture, inaugurates the Cinémathèque Française with Abel GANCE and Marcel L'HERBIER. - PM at the Cinémathèque Française, Monsieur MALRAUX examining the "ZOOTROPE" - André MALRAUX visiting the cinematheque with Jacques FLAUD, Director of the Centre National de la Cinématographie, Abel GANCE, Marcel L'HERBIER and Léon MATHOT. - PP of the "ZOOTROPE" in operation; - PP of REYNAUD "PRAXINOSCOPE" equipped with its strips; - PRAXINOSCOPE PP in operation; - Mr MALRAUX and Mr LANGLOIS, Director of the Cinematheque in front of the "LUMIERE" projector - PP of the LIGHT headlamp - Reconstruction of a studio in 1905 - Mr MALRAUX’s GP watching a film tape - PP of retrospective posters; "THE MISERABLE", "THE BAISER OF JUDAS".
A review of Emmanuel MACRON’s polemical statements during these public interventions, as on 8 September last in Athens when he talks about the reform of the labour code. Analysis of these comments by Bernard SANANES, Chief Executive Officer of the Elabe polling institute. Comment on factual and archival images.
While Jean-Baptiste LEMOYNE and Sébastien LECORNU, "Republicans" group, enter the government, the deputies "Republicans" who are ready to work with Emmanuel MACRON have created their own parliamentary group "The constructive ones". Thierry SOLERE, deputy Republicans of the Hauts-de-Seine, has formalized the movement of "constructive", those deputies "Macron-compatible" that come from the movements "Republicans" and "The Union of Independent Democrats". Commentary on factual images alternating with an extract of the statement of Thierry SOLERE and interviews of Christian JACOB, president of the group "Republicans" in the National Assembly and Nadine MORANO, MEP "The Republicans," you know.
Report on the youngest MNA of the National Assembly, Ludovic PAJOT, MNA FN of the 10th district of Pas-de-Calais. The factual images alternate with the interviews of the young man and Marine LE PEN, president of the FN and deputy of the 11th district of Pas-de-Calais.
For his first trip to France, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel MACRON, is visiting STX shipyards in Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique) to promote his reform on the future law of the labour code. At STX, competitiveness agreements were signed. Emmanuel MACRON inaugurated the ship MSC Meraviglia. A commentary on factual images alternates with an excerpt from Emmanuel MACRON’s speech.
Subject dedicated to General DE GAULLE, President of the Republic present at the Salon de l'agriculture located at the Parc des Expositions de la Porte de Versailles in Paris. He visits the various stands and shakes hands with the farmers, surrounded by Michel DEBRE, Prime Minister and Henri ROCHEREAU, Minister of Agriculture and a whole procession. The images of this visit are interspersed with plans of tractors and farm machines, animals in the big ring and stands of fruits and vegetables.
In preparation for the municipal elections, an agreement was reached between the Socialist Party and the Communist Party after five laborious negotiations. The PCF and PS staffs called this agreement a "gathering" and not a union. Extract from the statement made to the press by Pierre MAUROY, alongside Georges marchais, Henri Emmanuelli, Paul Laurent, announcing the joint lists PS/PC: "The Socialist Party and the French Communist Party call on all their local and federal organizations to meet to set up quickly, in each commune, a left-wing assembly list to be presented in the first round of municipal elections on 12 March 89".
Excerpt from the debate between Jacques CHIRAC and Lionel JOSPIN, five days before the second round of the presidential election. In particular, the two men opposed the problem of the five-year term, with a small humorous spike of the socialist candidate against his opponent: "In short, I would like to say while joking, of course, but with a background of seriousness, that it is better 5 years with Jospin than 7 years with Jacques Chirac".
In Paris, François MITTERRAND, President of the Republic, inaugurated the building of the National Library of France together with its architect, Dominique PERRAULT, Jacques CHIRAC, Mayor of Paris, Jean FAVIER, President of the institution, and Philippe SEGUIN, Lionel JOSPIN and Jack LANG.
The Socialist Party is in the campaign. On the one hand, Laurent FABIUS is determined more than ever to obtain a majority at the PS congress in a month. On the other hand, François HOLLANDE, who hopes to gather his troops around a single candidate, who will have been nominated at Le Mans. Commentary on image and excerpts from the interventions of the two candidates.
Arrival in Paris of Reinhard HEYDRICH, SS General, Head of Security, instructed by the Head of SS and German Police, Heinrich HIMMLER, to install in his duties Karl OBERG, General of SS and police in occupied territoirs. General HEYDRICH receives in Paris René BOUSQUET, Secretary General of the Police, and Georges HILAIRE, Secretary General of the Administration. He also contacted Louis DARQUIER de PELLEPOIX, the Commissioner General for Jewish Affairs, as well as Fernand de BRINON.
Presentation of the "transparency charter" published by the Elysée which specifies the representation role of Brigitte MACRON for five years. The wife of the President of the Republic is not remunerated, has no own budget, but has two advisers, a secretariat and police protection. The commentary on archive images, charter title bench, infographics, alternates with the interview of Aurore BERGE, MP, spokesman LREM, and Roger KAROUTCHI, Senator LR.
Report on the turbulence in the new National Assembly regarding the distribution of positions with responsibilities, 6 out of 8 of which have been allocated to the "La République en marche" group and against which the right-wing opposition filed appeals. France, insoumise", refuses to go to Versailles during the speech of Emmanuel MACRON. Commentary on factual images alternating with an extract from the statement of Christian JACOB, president of the LR group and Jean-Paul MELENCHON president of the group "France insoumise" in the National Assembly.
Reportage à Amiens à la rencontre de François RUFFIN, deputy of "France insoumise" in the 1st district of the Somme. The factual images alternate with archives, the reaction of a resident of Amiens and the interview of François RUFFIN.
Report on the arrival of new deputies from the parties of "La République en marche" and "La France insoumise" in the National Assembly. Alternating factual images, interviews with Jean-Michel JACQUES, MLA LREM of the 6th district of Hennebont-Gourin, Brigitte KUSTER, MNA LR of the 4th district of Paris, Clémentine AUTAIN, MNA La France insoumise, 11th district of Seine-Saint-Denis and Sébastien DENAJA, PS MP defeated.