Since entering the Elysée Palace in May, the 39-year-old president has settled two bills from a personal makeup artist called Natacha M; one for €10,000 and another for €16,000. Macron needs more than makeup to be the new De Gaulle | John Lichfield Read moreAfter the report in Le Point, presidential aides insisted there was no cover-up and that the makeup artist had been called in as “a matter of urgency”. Macron, nicknamed Jupiter after the all-powerful Roman god, is not the first French president to pay handsomely for keeping up appearances. They would say “French politicians all look like film stars … where is the stress and the fatigue?” he wrote. Sacré bleu – or orange – as the French don’t say.

Source: The Guardian August 25, 2017 10:03 UTC