By Niamh Harris
French President Emmanuel Macron has caused a stir among his countrymen for jet-skiing as his France faces the worst energy crisis in decades.
He has also been branded an eco-hypocrite by ecologists after being pictured using a gas-guzzling jet ski after demanding that citizens conserve energy.
His jet ski antics, which comes just three weeks after Macron asked compatriots to âprepareâ for shortages and âenergy austerityâ plans, has led to comparisons between him and Marie Antoinette who was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution. She was famous for saying, if the starving people were unable to buy bread, the state should âlet them eat cakeâ.
Breitbart reports: The French leader, fresh off a stinging defeat in the National Assembly elections, losing his legislative majority and dashing his dreams of a âJupitareanâ presidency â and indeed his hopes of becoming the undisputed top dog of Europe â fled Paris to vacation with his wife Bridgette at Fort de BrĂ©gançon, the official retreat of the President of France since 1968.