“The President of the Republic is working on it”: no one at the head of Versailles for more than three months, a scent of curse

Could Versailles be cursed? Since February 25, the date of the departure for the Louvre of the former president, Christophe Leribault, this great national heritage has been without a head. At the beginning of May, the Minister of Culture, Catherine Pégard, suggested that her replacement was on track. The days pass, and no one sees anything coming from the Élysée, which has control over this type of appointment. “The President of the Republic is working on it,” people around them say, in one of those open, risk-free formulas.

Certainly, the house of the Sun King, which has known others, is maintained on a day-to-day basis since its administrator, Pierre-Emmanuel Lecerf, assumes the interim presidency. The Choose France summit, organized in Versailles on 1^is and June 2, went off without a hitch, tens of thousands of visitors continue to flock daily, the exhibitions open on time, and the major plan to renovate fire safety and…