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# Hidalgo and the Élysée Palace, a Libération image and rats in Paris
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/idalgo-nakonets-gotova/
- Published: 2021-09-14T09:42:53.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:53:34.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Observations, Society, Paris, Humour

Hidalgo is finally ready! Destination: the Élysée Palace.

I do not know who hides behind the pseudonym Coco at the newspaper Libération, but this documentary image vividly reminded me how, on my last trip to Paris, I happened to meet more rats than Parisians. The fault lay not with my circle of acquaintance, which by that point had already been thoroughly deratised.