PARIS—French President Emmanuel Macron was so determined to hold his own umbrella at a rain-dampened event outside the lyse Palace on Wednesday that he shooed away aides three times when they tried to take it from him.
As Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovic spoke to reporters before a meeting with Macron, a female aide came out and handed the French leader a black umbrella. Macron took it and held it over his Slovakian guest.
A second female aide arrived and offered to hold the first umbrella for Macron. He gestured to her that there was no need.
When the two men finished speaking to the media, and turned to walk back up the steps into the lyse Palace, a military …
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