Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron in Paris, 2015. AFP:
On his 70th birthday, which he celebrates on April 13, the former professor of letters from Amiens has become an example of self-sacrifice. “Believe in your dreams” is the motto he always applied to himself. Back in pictures.
For six years, Brigitte Macron has continued to support her husband, elected President of the Republic in 2017 and again in 2022, sticking to her role as second in command, sometimes reserved, sometimes assertive. Ever since the media debut of Emmanuel Macron, then economy minister, in 2015, the world has wanted to know everything about this former French teacher who fell in love with his student, 25 years his junior. About this woman who “gave up everything to follow her dreams”, as she likes to remember.
In the video, Brigitte Macron returns to school for ELA instruction
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the love of writing
“There are moments in life when you have to make choices that will affect the rest of your life,” he said in the column. Madame Figaro , one year ago. His fate was sealed in 1993 within the walls of the Jesuit High School of La Providence in Amiens. Brigitte Troigneau, 39, a French teacher, runs a theater workshop, which 15-year-old Emmanuel Macron is a part of. At the time, she was married to banker André Lozier and was already the mother of three children: Sébastien, Laurence and Tiffe (now aged 48, 46 and 39).
The literature teacher was “captivated by the boy’s wit” and the following year took him back to her class to rewrite Eduardo Filippo’s play with her. The art of comedy. Every Friday they both meet at work. Then to discuss. These same Fridays become an excuse to see and exchange each other. Coming from a family of chocolate makers from Amiens, bourgeois and Catholic, Brigitte broke off the relationship while Emmanuel Macron fled to Paris to attend preparatory classes. It would be ten years before Trogneux’s youngest (they are six siblings) decided to join the capital and his former student. The latter was then 29 years old and was already a financial inspector. Bridget divorced in 2006. in January, before marrying the future city councilor in 2007. He is 53 years old.
A couple that catches all eyes
Since then, the couple has been the target of many rumors. When some hold up their age gap as a model for changing mindsets, others criticize or ridicule it. From the beginning of his first campaign, Emmanuel Macron will not stop posing with his wife at every opportunity, as if to silence the most violent.
At the Elysée, Brigitte is far from a rogue and, like all first ladies, uses her status to support causes dear to her heart. In 2019, he replaced Bernadette Chirac as president of the Fondation des Hôpitaux. Next year, he will pay tribute to the wife of the “Father of Korez” by taking up the torch of Operation Yellow Cloth for the benefit of hospitalized children.
In the video, Brigitte Macron presented the 31st collection of “Yellow pieces”.
seven times grandmother
Very close to her children, Brigitte Macron, a seven-time grandmother, does not neglect her family. Moreover, he trusted RTL a few years ago. “If my children didn’t allow me to live with Emmanuel, I wouldn’t do it (…). I couldn’t wait to ruin their lives, it wasn’t possible. When everyone was mad at me, I always had Sebastian, Laurence and Tiffe.” At the age of 70, he, who received many criticisms, became a model of self-sacrifice.
Source: Le Figaro
