PARIS — The French presidential wine cellar holds 14,000 bottles regarded as so precious, few people are allowed to enter the room. Flower bouquets are displayed at the presidential palace only for a couple of hours so they always look fresh. On Saturday and Sunday, a few hundred people were visiting the underground kitchen, cellar and florist rooms. Under President Emmanuel Macron’s office and the Elysee’s 18th-century golden reception rooms is an underground world where a small battalion of workers makes the whole place tick. The basement kitchen used to be a horse stable.

Source: National Post September 15, 2018 09:56 UTC