Brigitte Macron's daughter
paralyzed the Elysée Palace
and aroused great interest among the French when she offered, in an interview in Paris Match magazine and other media,
a new vision of her childhood trauma
when her mother, a teacher, fell in love with the current president Emmanuel Macron, 15 years old.
Her banker father immediately left the family home and died in 2019, in the utmost discretion.
He was buried on Christmas Eve.
In media interviews to
launch her first novel
, lawyer
Tiphaine Auzière
, 40, explained what she experienced when
she was ten years old
and her mother fell in love with her student.
A story set in the justice system about a woman's suffering at the hands of abusive men.
Macron, his wife Brigitte Trogneux and Tiphaine Auziere (2nd from the right).
Photo: AFP / archive
The
youngest of the French first lady's three children
with André-Louis Auzière, she said
her suffering had been exacerbated
by
the scandalous nature
of her mother's affair with Macron in 1994. He was 24 years Brigitte's junior and
a classmate. of his eldest daughter
, Laurence.
They married in 2006.
A provincial affair
Brigitte waited 10 years, until her children grew up.
Macron was sent to Paris, to the Henry IV Lyceum by his doctor parents in the midst of the scandal, convinced that he would fall in love with a girl his age.
But in Amiens, a small town where Brigitte's family runs a thriving chocolate shop, it was
a scandal that shook and divided the family.
“A separation is painful.
But when there is something in particular, it is even more painful.
I learned a lot about human nature.
I know that, in times like these, you have to focus on what is essential and move forward, regardless of the criticism,” Auzière told Paris Match.
Admire Macron and hate the attacks
Three decades later, Auzière, a lawyer who has two children with her husband, a doctor, said she deeply admired the 46-year-old president, calling him
"human, brave and generous
. "
She got used to
having a dad and a stepfather
, with whom she has a short age difference.
She says she remains angry about “the malice” shown toward her mother, now 70, in Amiens, her hometown.
She lamented the way her father, a banker who died in 2019 at age 68, was forced to leave when the affair broke out.
Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte during a mass for Pope Francis.
Photo: Reuters/file
“The attacks, the slander, the trials.
It was not yet the era of social media.
But
we were in a small provincial town
.
Everything is known,” she said.
"I heard a lot of criticism and comments about the age difference between my mother and Emmanuel," she told Le Figaro.
“That shaped my character.
I learned to live with it and get over it because
the love was there
.”
Divorce and pain for children
Auzière, who works in a Paris law firm and lives with his family in Le Touquet on the English Channel coast, has repeatedly declared his love for both Macron and his dead father.
"For any child,
divorce is very painful.
But a recomposed family can be an opportunity," he told Le Figaro.
“There may be independent blood ties.
“I have been lucky to have had an extraordinary father and an extraordinary stepfather.”
He also attacked
bizarre conspiracy theories on social media
after Macron's election that claimed his mother was born a man.
“I am concerned at the level of society when I hear what is circulating on social media about my mother being a man,” she said.
"Anyone can say
anything stupid about anyone
and it takes time to weed it out."
The first lady, her children and her brother successfully sued two women for publishing the rumors.
His novel Assises
His daughter said she expected to come under anti-Macron criticism for her novel Assises.
She calls it
a “distress signal”
after her experiences
of her defending women abused and manipulated by men
while she worked as a young lawyer in Boulogne-sur-Mer.
Assises, the new and revealing book by Brigitte Macaron's youngest daughter.
Photo: casadellibro.com
“I had this question inside me: why do these women, victims of violence, rarely manage to reveal their great anguish?
It is this notion of the dominance that executioners exert over their victims that has gnawed at me all these years,” he told La Tribune.
His mother
“liked the book,”
which will be published next week, he said.
Brigitte is a literature, Latin and theater teacher.
Macron is not the president of the rich
“It hurts me that Emmanuel is presented as the president of the rich.
That’s not him,
” she said.
He blamed En Marche's leadership for its reputation for favoring the rich over the poor.
“People don't know what they've done.
“I think we have a problem explaining it, getting the message to the provinces because the movement is directed too much from Paris,” he said.
At a local level she is known for her involvement in issues such as the closure of classrooms, a campaign against a wind farm or the fight against domestic violence.
At least four ministers have visited the area to support their campaigns, Paris Match said in its eight-page article.