March 19, 2018
The Grand Ducal couple and his delegation will be officially welcomed at Les Invalides in the presence of the French Minister for European Affairs, Nathalie Loiseau. [...]
It is by car that the Grand Ducal couple, accompanied by the large escort of 140 horses and 28 motorcyclists of the motorcycle squadron of the Republican Guard, will be driven to the Elysee Palace.
TRH the Grand Duke and the Grand Duchess will be welcomed by French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron for a face-to-face meeting.
The Grand-Ducal couple, the Ministers Étienne Schneider and Pierre Gramegna as well as the Secretary of State to the Minister of Economy and Finance of the French Republic, Delphine Gény-Stephann, will then attend a lunch of senior economic and at an economic forum entitled "France-Luxembourg: More than neighbors". [...]
At the end of the afternoon, the Grand-Ducal couple will be welcomed for an interview at the Hôtel de Lassay by the President of the National Assembly, François de Rugy, in the presence of Minister Jean Asselborn.
A gala dinner offered in honor of LL.AA.RR. the Grand Duke and the Grand Duchess at the Élysée Palace by the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife Brigitte Macron will close this first day of the state visit. [...]
March 20, 2018
In the early morning, LL.AA.RR. the Grand Duke and the Grand Duchess will go for an interview at the Hotel du Luxembourg to meet the President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, in the presence of Minister Jean Asselborn.
The Grand-Ducal couple will then attend a reception at the Paris City Hall, followed by an interview with the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, in the presence of Minister Jean Asselborn. This meeting will be followed by the signing of a memorial parchment and the exchange of gifts. The grand-ducal couple will also have the opportunity to greet the guests and the Luxembourg community in Paris.
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The intergovernmental seminar will be followed by a luncheon hosted in the Council Chamber in Matignon by the French Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe, in honor of LL.AA.RR. the Grand Duke and the Grand Duchess [...]
At Station F, a start-up incubator set up in a former railway building, the Head of State and his wife, accompanied by Ministers Xavier Bettel, Étienne Schneider and Pierre Gramegna, will have the opportunity to meet with entrepreneurs on the ShareIT.io acceleration program, whose objective is to help social and environmental entrepreneurs to develop technological projects to build solutions that address societal challenges. They will meet, among others, officials of the NGO We are not Weapons of War and the association Hackers Against Natural Disaster.
The Rodin museum will be used as part of the exhibition "Steichen / Rodin: a dialogue", which is above all the reflection of a beautiful story of friendship between two men, an American of Luxembourg origin and a French, in the capital of contemporary art in the early 20th century. The grand-ducal couple and the wife of the French head of state will attend a guided tour. After the visit, LL.AA.RR. the Grand Duke and the Grand Duchess will give a reception dinner in the gardens of the museum.
March 21, 2018
The last day of the state visit, LL.AA.RR. the Grand Duke and the Grand Duchess and the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy, Étienne Schneider, will pay a visit to Toulouse. [...]
The official delegation will first visit the National Center for Space Studies (CNES) to visit, among others, the French Instrument Mars Operation Center (FIMOC), a center for French instrument operations for the Mars mission. [...]
It is at the Toulouse town hall, located on Capitol Square, that the grand ducal couple and the ministers will be welcomed by the mayor of Toulouse and president of Toulouse metropolis, Jean-Luc Moudenc. After an interview, they will have the opportunity to visit the magnificent Hall of Illustrious whose paintings retrace the history of the city and meet with Luxembourg nationals and local authorities.
After an official lunch hosted by the prefect of the Occitan region and prefect of Haute-Garonne, Pascal Mailhos, at the prefecture hotel, LL.AA.RR. the Grand Duke and the Grand Duchess and their delegation will visit the Quai des savoirs, [...] They will visit the exhibition "#HumainDemain", which informs and makes its visitors aware of the issues and impacts of scientific and technological innovations on their daily lives and those of future generations.
This state visit will end in the late afternoon with the visit of the company Airbus. [...]