These are specially scrutinized documents. Also with a touch of curiosity. The High Authority for Transparency in Public Life (HATVP) has published the asset declarations of the 43 members of Elisabeth Borne’s government, ministers, deputy ministers and state secretaries.

Polytechnician and former head of RATP, the Prime Minister declared to be the owner of two apartments, in Paris and in Hauts-de-Seine. Total value of 1.3 million, of which more than 50,000 euros is still owed to the bank. She also has several life insurance policies totaling more than 250,000 euros and a Citroën worth 10,780 euros.

Life insurance over 1.4 million euros for Gabriel Attal

On the side of the richest, the budget minister Gabriel Attal declares a life insurance of over 1.4 million euros. His colleague in European Affairs, Laurence Boone, has shares and stock options worth around 500,000 euros in the insurance company Axa. His supervisory minister, Catherine Colonna, declares more than 700,000 euros in life insurance.

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin does not declare any life insurance, but the purchase for 618,000 euros in 2019 of a detached house in the Nordics, of which he still has to repay more than 580,000 euros.

Recently questioned for the shares held by her children in a company not mentioned in her declaration of interests, whose funds are partly domiciled in tax shelters, the Minister of Energy Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher declares a comfortable legacy. Half owner of two Parisian apartments, she has almost 400,000 euros in life insurance and 1.1 million euros spread over several savings accounts.

A Rolex for Dupond-Moretti

Among the more unusual statements, Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire, Agnès Firmin Le Bodo (territorial organization and health professions) and Agnès Pannier-Runacher have tables of values. Sports Minister Amélie Oudea-Castera declared a pendant worth 12,600 euros.

The Keeper of the Seals Eric Dupond-Moretti, a former lawyer, owns a Rolex watch worth 13,000 euros and a Journe “sovereign chronometer” worth 25,000 euros. He also owns two Harley Davidson vehicles (€41,000) and a Bentley (€55,000).

The imminent publication of asset declarations hastened the government’s resignation on Monday of ministerial delegate for local government, Caroline Cayeux, in disagreement with HATVP. The High Authority took legal action on Tuesday for “a false assessment” of his inheritance as well as for “tax evasion”, which the former minister disputes.