Nemo (dog)

Nemo (born 2015) is a black Labrador Retriever-Griffon dog owned by French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte.

Nemo
BreedLabrador Retriever-Griffon
SexMale
BornMarin
2015
Tulle, Corrèze, France
ResidenceÉlysée Palace, Paris, France

Life

Nemo was born as Marin in 2015 in Tulle, former French President François Hollande's hometown.[1][2] By August 2017, he was living in an animal shelter run by the Société protectrice des animaux (SPA), an animal rights charity, in Hermeray, Yvelines near Paris.[1][2] At the beginning of the same month, Brigitte Macron visited the centre and told staff that the presidential couple wanted to adopt a dog with a number of distinctive traits.[1] They found a black Labrador Retriever-Griffon crossbreed named Marin.[1]

On 27 August 2017, upon returning from their summer break, President Macron and his wife went back to the SPA centre and officially adopted Marin.[1][3] The president named him Nemo after Captain Nemo, a character in one of his favourite novels, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne.[1][2][4]

Nemo has lived in the Élysée Palace, the official residence of the French president, since Monday 28 August 2017.[1][2] On his first day, he welcomed Idriss Déby, the president of Chad, alongside President Macron.[1]

References
  1. Quinault Maupoil, Tristan (28 August 2017). "Un nouveau chien à l'Elysée : Nemo, adopté par les Macron à la SPA". Le Figaro. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  2. Bachellerie, Julien (28 August 2017). "Destin élyséen pour "Nemo", le chien de la SPA de Tulle". La Montagne. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  3. "France's President Macron adopts black dog called Nemo". BBC News. 28 August 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  4. "Le chien Nemo". Shanghai Daily. 3 September 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
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