French President Emmanuel Macron: All information about his wife Brigitte Macron
Created: 04/20/2022, 18:08
Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron © Daniel Pier / IMAGO
The wife of French President Emmanuel Macron has been making headlines for years because of her CV.
Worth knowing about Brigitte Macron
Paris – Brigitte Macron, born in Amiens on April 13, 1953, can look back on an exciting CV: press officer, teacher of Emmanuel Macron, who later became French President, his secret lover and, since the 2017 elections, also France's first lady.
She is the mother of three children: Sébastien (*1975), Laurence (*1977) and Tiphaine (*1984).
Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron's nicknames in high society in Paris are: "Bibi" and "Manu".
Brigitte Macron – her family
The youngest of six children, Brigitte Macron, daughter of Simone (née Pujol; 1910-1998) and Jean Trogneux (1909-1994), grew up in a wealthy family in the northern French city of Amiens.
The wealth of the Trogneux family had its origins in the family business, a traditional chocolate production company with several branches.
However, the wife of the later French President Emmanuel Macron was never interested in a career in the chocolate dynasty.
Instead, she decided to study philosophy.
She then worked for several years as a spokeswoman for a regional and chamber of commerce.
At that time, her first marriage was to André Louis Auzière, then director of the Banque Française du Commerce Extérieur, with whom she had a son and two daughters.
During this marriage, the Auzière family lived in Truchtersheim in Alsace, a commune of about 2000 inhabitants.
It was there that she, who has a master's degree in philosophy, first came into contact with politics: in 1989 she ran for local elections to ensure that the mayor, who had been in power for 24 years, was removed.
However, she and her comrades-in-arms failed.
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Brigitte Macron – her professional and private career
After the birth of her second daughter, Brigitte Macron, after having been spokesperson for the Pas-de-Calais Chamber of Commerce and Region for a while, changed careers and became a teacher of French and Latin at the Jesuit high school in her hometown.
It was a step that would change her life forever and continue to make headlines to this day.
There the then 40-year-old teacher met the then 15-year-old student Emmanuel Macron, a classmate of her daughter Laurence, in the school's own theater group.
Despite the age difference, there was a spark between the teacher and the student, but in order to avoid a scandal, Emmanuel Macron switched to an elite school in Paris.
Before leaving, he prophesied to Brigitte that he would come back and marry her.
A few years later, exactly this should happen:
Brigitte divorced her first husband and married Emmanuel Macron on October 20, 2007.
Eight years later she ended her career as a teacher to support Emmanuel Macron in his political career.
Since her husband's election victory in May 2017, Brigitte Macron has acted as his advisor and has taken care of various representative and charitable projects.
If she is asked about the age difference of 25 years, journalists often get a tongue-in-cheek answer: "We only notice this age difference when we have breakfast together - I with my wrinkles, he with his freshness."
to support Emmanuel Macron in his political career.
Since her husband's election victory in May 2017, Brigitte Macron has acted as his advisor and has taken care of various representative and charitable projects.
If she is asked about the age difference of 25 years, journalists often get a tongue-in-cheek answer: "We only notice this age difference when we have breakfast together - I with my wrinkles, he with his freshness."
to support Emmanuel Macron in his political career.
Since her husband's election victory in May 2017, Brigitte Macron has acted as his advisor and has taken care of various representative and charitable projects.
If she is asked about the age difference of 25 years, journalists often get a tongue-in-cheek answer: "We only notice this age difference when we have breakfast together - I with my wrinkles, he with his freshness."
Brigitte Macron - her fight against rumors
In late 2021, Brigitte Macron launched a court case for spreading claims circulating on social media that she was a transgender woman born Jean-Michel Trogneux.
Conspiracy theorists had repeatedly made this claim after a right-wing extremist medium published corresponding rumors in the fall.
The claims came as her husband Emmanuel Macron began preparing for the 2022 election.
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If there is no clear result on the evening of the election, then the decision will be made in the run-off election on April 24th.
Current surveys still see Macron ahead, but one candidate in particular seems to be getting closer before the 2022 French elections.
