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According to the title of Raphaëlle Bacqué’s work dedicated to the French prime ministers of the Fifth Republic, Matignon is a true “hell” subduing its occupants at breakneck pace. However, the study of Pierre Mauroy’s agendas and his aide-de-camp’s journal allows us to see that the week of this French Prime Minister, who was also mayor of Lille, was very structured with recurring meetings established with his ministers, the Head of State, and his collaborators, as well as in the National Assembly. Urgency can obviously be imposed, in particular during major economic decisions (devaluation of the franc in June 1982, austerity measures) and structural reforms, but more than an upheaval of the organization, it is an agenda which extends out, taking advantage of the gaps left vacant. The originality of Pierre Mauroy’s week at Matignon lay in his weekends, almost all of which he devoted to returning to his city of Lille where he continued to assume the duties of mayor. This ubiquity between Lille and Paris was made possible by exceptional logistical means.