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Sale silence on Macron photo
Controversy over portrait

President Macron’s official portrait was controversial when issued as it did not meet usual styles and was a different size – but whether it matched sales of predecessors Hollande or Sarkozy has proved impossible to discover.
Questions to his office, the prime minister’s office and the official seller, Documentation Française, all drew a blank... just like in Creuse where mayors turned the photo against the wall claiming Mr Macron had failed to help a local car parts factory.