She is the daughter of Brigitte Macron and the daughter-in-law of Emmanuel Macron.
Tiphaine Auzière, a 40-year-old lawyer, publishes
Assises
, her first novel set in the legal environment.
Facing
Paris Match
, who came to meet her in the Stock publishing offices, the youngest daughter of the first lady weighs her words.
She knows how important their meaning is.
“In the exercise of the profession, we do not speak for ourselves, but for others.
You have to think about the consequences of your sentences for the person you are defending.
As a family, we try to tell each other everything and hear everything,” she told the weekly.
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With our colleague from
Paris Match
, Marie-Laure Delorme, Tiphaine Auzière agrees to talk about her life.
As a child, after a few years spent in Alsace, she moved to Amiens.
She studied there at La Providence, where her mother taught.
She remembers seeing her parents work a lot: “I always saw them leave early and come back late.
They passed on work as a value to me and were invested in their children’s studies.”
“We were in a small provincial town.
Everything is known”
In 1994, Tiphaine Auzière was 10 years old when her parents separated (they did not divorce until 2006).
Her mother then began a romance with a certain Emmanuel Macron, a former student twenty-four years her junior.
“Tiphaine Auzière was a child when the scandal broke.
The hurtful remarks slip through the holes in the wall erected by his parents,” we read in
Paris Match
.
Thirty years have passed since then, but the wound is still there.
“A separation is painful, afterwards, with a particularity, it is even more painful,” says Tiphaine Auzière, referring here to the age difference between her mother and her stepfather, who became President of the Republic French in 2017.
“I learned a lot about human nature,” she continues.
I know that, in these moments, we must focus on the essential and move forward without taking into account criticism.
The attacks, the backbiting, the judgments.
It was not yet the era of social networks, but we were in a small provincial town.
Everything is known.
Despite all this, they stood tall.
I gained an open mind, the desire to move forward without listening to peripheral noise, and greater tolerance.
A family separation can be a sorrow and an opportunity.
Recomposition can prove to be an enrichment.
I have a loving father and stepfather.”
“Anyone can say anything about anyone”
Tiphaine Auzière always speaks in the present tense about her father, André-Louis Auzière, and yet the latter died on December 24, 2019. The forty-year-old, mother of two children, admits to having an “anxious and unrelieved relationship with death”.
“I lost my grandparents and my father.
The circle becomes smaller.
The absence is present.
I would have liked my children to know him,” she always confides to
Paris Match
.
I have concerns about the level of society when I hear what is circulating on social networks about my mother being a man
Tiphaine Auziere
In this rare interview, Emmanuel Macron's daughter-in-law also denounces the toxicity of social networks.
This is also why she prefers not to go to X (formerly Twitter).
“How to resist disinformation on social networks?
she asks herself.
My children have already heard horrors at school, but they tell me about them.
I am not minimizing their words because, on the scale of a child, things take on a different magnitude.
I don't feel pain, but anger at the misinformation.
I have concerns about the level of society when I hear what is circulating on social networks about my mother being a man.
The confidence of what is affirmed and the credit given to what is proclaimed.
Anyone can say anything about anyone, and it takes time to take it back.”
That being said, Tiphaine Auzière considers herself lucky, she is armed and well surrounded.
Unlike many others.
To avoid drama, the lawyer says: “We need to work on moderation, online anonymity, and excessively long deadlines for deleting content.”
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