About twenty months after his appointment in Matignon, the politician finally resigned from Emmanuel Macron, entrusting his duty to Gabriel Attal. Although his impressive autobiography was well known, very little information about his personal life was leaked. Portrait:
He has taken the subway for years. Recognizable from a distance, his vape in his mouth, piercing gaze and graying hair swaying at the back. Elizabeth Bourne, former director of RATP, took up residence at the Hotel Matignon, rue de Varennes, on 16 May 2022. Appointed as prime minister in Emmanuel Macron’s government, she became the second woman to hold the post thirty years after Edith. Cresson: “She is a woman, we are crazy with happiness. But above all, it is true,” enthused Brigitte Macron a few days after the appointment.
However, less than two years later, the one whom all of Macron described as a “very good choice” has just resigned, succeeding the new chief executive, Gabriel Atal. After this announcement, many elected officials highly appreciated the politician’s career. “The epitome of feminine power” for Valerie Pecresse, “courageous and dedicated” according to Gérard Darmanin. The President of the Republic highly appreciated the capabilities of his elected official. “Mrs. Prime Minister, your work to serve our nation has been exemplary every day. You have implemented our project with the courage, dedication and determination of the women of the states. With all my heart, thank you,” he wrote on X, his former Twitter account, under a photo taken at the Elysée.
Resistance and concentration camp
However, nothing predestined Elizabeth Bourne for such functions. Indeed, he who at the age of 61 had to overcome his personal injuries to get here. During his first official visit to Muro (Yveline) on May 19, 2022, he made a strong speech under the sign of persistence. Speaking to high school and work-study students, the president’s former right-hand man shared more about his life’s journey, dedicating his candidacy to “all young women.” “When you have a difficult road, which is in my case, when there are not so pleasant events in your personal life, science and logical things have a hopeful side. I stuck with it,” he declared, justifying his love for mathematics.
Because it was this discipline that saved him. In 1978, when Elizabeth Bourne was just 17 years old and had her Bachelor of Science, she took the high road by joining the prestigious École Polytechnique. An institution funded by its special status as a “guardian of the nation,” a title given to minor children whose parents have been injured or killed in war or a terrorist attack. Joseph Born, born Bornstein, her father, actually took his own life in 1972 when she was just 11 years old. A Russian-born Jew and resistance fighter, a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, he had gradually fallen into depression. In 2013, after inducting her first citizen as Prefect of Poitou-Charentes, Elizabeth Bourne had an exciting thought for her patriarch. says something about integration.”
Raised by his pharmacist mother who runs a modest pharmacy in Calvados, Livarot, this child survivor decides to give himself a chance to succeed. “I had no choice, I had to. This allowed me to build my character and my fighting side,” he breathed in a recent interview. Women’s magazine. In addition to classical dance lessons, little “Babette” successfully continues her lessons. One of his classmates remembers on the benches of the Polytechnic. “He was very reserved. I have no memories of him in the evening or at events, at the bar or at the ping-pong table, she says. Student of Figaro . He was hardworking (…) I think he dedicated his life to work.” After the polytechnic, he graduated from École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in 1987.
My son, my fight
This path of republican superiority allows him to acquire high responsible positions at the age of only 28. In 1989, she moved from adviser to member of the regional management of the Ministry of Technology (Île-de-France) and at the same time met her future and ex-husband. Olivier Alix, a young university student two years younger than him. She said yes to him on June 30, 1989, before divorcing in 2008 after nineteen years together. In 2017, Elizabeth Bourne admitted to our colleagues that Set free that “having a teacher-researcher husband was a favorable situation for her while spending hours in ministerial offices”. Their only son, Nathan, was born to their union in 1995. An experienced worker, the former first lady, however, has always made her child her priority. Questioned at the microphone Women’s magazineHe trusts. “Above everything is my son, even if he is now big and independent.” If he knew how to find his way in the very closed world of politics, he assures that he always put his education ahead of his career. “I was not ready to give up supporting him in life.”
Books and companies
Elizabeth Bourne is also making time for herself, particularly with her new companion, Patrice Obert, an economist, retired senior civil servant, author and former member of the Socialist Party. We were able to see the couple last August while on vacation in Saint-Tropez, in the south of France. Someone who loves the sea also seeks to nurture and develop his friendships and his hobbies. Working in the cabinet of Ségolène Royal and Jack Lang, who were appointed Transitional Minister for Transport, Environment and Inclusiveness and then Labor in 2020, Elizabeth Bourne has continued to keep her feet grounded in reality. “It’s very important to stay connected with your friends. Especially when you are stuck in the world of senior leaders. It’s avoiding being in each other’s company,” explained the woman, who still maintains a strong bond with her best friend from senior year, whose background is so different from hers.
So he says he often goes to the theater, a passion he shares with his partner, and the cinema for physical activity, but above all he prefers to spend time every night reading. A way to “free the mind” for him. It was delivered in 2017 world list of his favorite novelists. Among them is former journalist Sorge Chalandon (Fourth wall) and Finn Arto Paasilinna (Small suicides between friends) Rue de Varenne, the prime minister wants to keep his rituals. Between his pile of files related to the climate fight or the explosive topic of pensions, he who is running for the next legislative election in Calvados always opens his bed book before going to bed. Perhaps the baptized one A promiseBy Sorge Chalandon, his favorite author.
Source: Le Figaro
