With a “small twinge in the heart”, Brigitte Macron came to greet one last time on Wednesday at the ZooParc de Beauval Yuan Mengthe first of the baby pandas born in 2017, of which she is godmother, before he leaves for China on July 4.
“Yuan Meng will be going back to China soon, that’s why I wanted to be here today,” President Emmanuel Macron’s wife said during a surprise nearly three-hour visit to the city on Wednesday afternoon. Zoological Park of Saint-Aignan (Loir-et-Cher), alongside the Secretary of State for Ecological Transition Bérangère Couillard. “I’ll try to go and see him maybe once there. But there, I have a little pinch in the heart, ”she added.
Yuan Meng, the first baby panda born in France in August 2017 at ZooParc de Beauvalwill settle this summer at the Center for Research and Reproduction of the Giant Panda in Chengdu (China), “to reproduce with an unrelated female”, indicated the director of the zoo Rodolphe Delord.
The stars of Beauval
“I have known Yuan Meng for five and a half years, and every time I see him, this same emotion comes back,” continued the First Lady. “I find it difficult to analyze it. It generates a feeling of zenitude. We look at it and we don’t want to be anywhere else. But why I don’t know. »
Real stars of Beauval, the parents of Yuan Meng, Yuan Zi and Huan Huan, on loan since 2012 by the Chinese authorities, recently saw their stay extended until 2027.
Between two selfies with visitors, Brigitte Macron also went to see the two younger sisters of her panda godson, the twins Huanlili and Yuandudu who also stay in Beauval.