(8 Jun 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS VIA AGENCY POOL (AFPTV)
Elysee Palace, PARIS, FRANCE – 08 June 2024
1. Wide of state dinner
2. SOUNDBITE (French) Emmanuel Macron, French President:
“And today, Harold chose our country at age 100 to marry Jeanne Swerlin. They are with us today. As well as the veterans’ celebration, we hope for this marriage be a happy one. So, congratulations to the newlyweds." (pan to table where newlyweds are sitting with a standing ovation around them)
3. Wide of state dinner
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Emmanuel Macron, French President:
“And today, Harold chose our country at age 100 to marry Jeanne Carentan (village in Normandy where they got wed) was happy to host your wedding and us, your wedding dinner. In any case, so many relationships have been built on this foundation, from cinema to music, from literature to space, from energy to transport, agriculture, and health. So many partnerships consolidate this bilateral relationship (US and France) that we’ve strengthened even more recently. It is also this relationship that has enabled us to assert our values together in the face of Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, or today in the Middle East, in Gaza."
5. State dinner toast
STORYLINE:
World War II veteran Harold Terens and his sweetheart Jeanne Swerlin proved that love is eternal as they tied the knot near the D-Day beaches in Normandy on Saturday.
He’s 100, she’s a youngster of just 96.
Just hours after the celebration, the couple was invited to the state dinner at the Elysee Palace in Paris with President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. President Joe Biden.
"Congratulations to the newlyweds," Macron said, prompting cheers and a standing ovation from other guests during the toast praising French-American friendship.
“(The town of) Carentan was happy to host your wedding, and us, your wedding dinner,” he told the couple.
The wedding was symbolic, not binding in law.
Mayor Jean-Pierre Lhonneur’s office said he wasn’t empowered to wed foreigners who aren’t residents of Carentan, and that the couple, who are both American, hadn’t requested legally binding vows.
However, they could always complete those formalities back in Florida if they wished.
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