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Brigitte Macron, Former Drama Teacher, Prepares for New Role: French First Lady
Newsweek
11 hours ago
When they first met, he was 15, she was a married 40-year old teacher coaching him in a school play. Set to enter the Elysee presidential palace as First Lady, Brigitte Macron will keep coaching her husband, but on a bigger stage now.

Newly-elected French President Emmanuel Macron's wife, now 64, has been constantly by his side during his campaign, managing his agenda, editing his speeches and advising him on his stage presence.


For his victory speech after winning the first round of the election two weeks ago, Macron brought his wife onto the podium and thanked her, to long applause.

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Brigitte Trogneux
Brigitte Trogneux, the wife of French presidential election candidate Emmanuel Macron casts her ballot during the the second round of 2017 French presidential election, in Le Touquet, France, May 7, 2017. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

"Brigitte, always present, and even more now, without whom I would not be me," an emotional Macron said as hundreds of his supporters shouted her name.

Both complete unknowns when Macron was appointed economy minister in Socialist President Francois Hollande's government in August 2014, Brigitte Macron, born Trogneux, resigned from her teaching job a year later to help her ambitious young husband.

At the economy ministry, she was a discreet presence during meetings with officials in the modernist Bercy building by the Seine in eastern Paris.

"She spends a lot of time here because her view matters to me, because she brings a different atmosphere, that is important. My life is here, you cannot work well if you are not happy," Macron said in his last staff meeting after he resigned from the Hollande government in August 2016.

He would not declare his presidential bid until three months later, on Nov. 16, 2016, but by then he had already started making the relationship with Trogneux - nearly 25 years his senior - an integral part of his public persona.

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In the months leading up to his official candidacy, the French public discovered Trogneux in a series of cover stories in the popular society magazine Paris Match, including, in August 2016, one of the couple on the beach, the petite blonde looking svelte and tanned in a one-piece bathing suit.

"Lovers' holiday before the offensive," read the headline.

In a November 2016 TV documentary on France 3, just days after Macron declared his bid, the couple shared video footage of the youthful Macron in the school play at which they met, and footage of their 2007 wedding ceremony.

"Thanks for accepting us, a not quite normal couple," Macron is heard saying in a video of the ceremony, attended by Trogneux' then adult children. He was nearly 30, she 54.

French cartoonists and satirical radio and TV programs regularly mock the couple's age difference, portraying Macron as a schoolboy taking instructions from his teacher.

Macron supporters say these jokes are misogynist, saying that nobody would bat an eyelid if the age difference - the same as between U.S. President Donald Trump and his wife Melania - had been the other way around.



Trogneux, takes the mockery in her stride and has joked that if he wanted to run for president, he better do it soon, while she still looked presentable.

"He needs to go for it in 2017 because by 2022, his problem will be my face," she was quoted as telling a friend in Nico­las Pris­sette's book "Emma­nuel Macron en marche vers l’Élysée"

Born Brigitte Trogneux April 13, 1953, the youngest of six children in a family of wealthy chocolate makers in the northern town of Amiens, she married a banker with whom she had three children.

In 1993, in the Providence Jesuit college where she taught French and drama, the young Macron acted in a play under her supervision. The next year, the two rewrote a play together, adapting it to include more roles.

"Little by little, I came totally under the spell of the intelligence of this young boy," Trogneux told France 3 TV.

As rumors started to fly about the relationship, Macron left Amiens to complete his last year of high school at the prestigious Lycee Henri IV in Paris, a traditional breeding ground for the French elite.

"You cannot get rid of me. I will come back and I will marry you," Macron told Trogneux according to his biographers.

Asked about what role Trogneux would play at the Elysee if he were elected, Macron has said that he will propose that within the first weeks of his presidency a formal, albeit unremunerated, role is established for the French First Lady and that she will have her say in how that role is defined.

"She will have an existence, she will have a voice there, a view on things. She will be at my side, as she has always been, but she will also have a public role," he said.


Avatar GusFring29 9 hours ago
France is doomed with this guy. Mark my word. Another case of style over depth, these two are just narcissists and in over their heads. The media will hawk their celebrity, the blind sheeple will believe it, and France will suffer tremendously as a result. La Pen meant serious business, and that's the way they needed to go. My prayers are with France and the future devastation this will cause their good, innocent people.
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Avatar Dr. Pierce 9 hours ago
They have a very liberal and progressive relationship.
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Avatar Dr. Pierce 9 hours ago
What a couple of degenerates, good luck France you're going to need it.
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Avatar Dale 9 hours ago
don't they lock teachers up for this?
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Avatar Black and White 10 hours ago
Oh yes the cradle robber!
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Avatar Freedom Lover 9 hours ago
The State of ISIS, formerly known as France, welcomes every unassimilated Muslim from around the world. The new national meal will be pita bread, hummus and falafel.
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Avatar Aario 9 hours ago
Well, we will see how fast you French Idiots will wipe out by African & Muslim Zombies. AU REVOIR Idiots
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Avatar Katie 9 hours ago
How disgusting they have a 25 year age difference and she was his teacher!! YUCK!!
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Avatar Free4All 9 hours ago
Usual media which ignores teachers seducing students when it fits their script. No wonder their rankings continue to sink faster than the Titanic.
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Avatar Narob 9 hours ago
Fresh new faces fronting for the NWO.
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Avatar Bill 9 hours ago
If you don't think that a 40 year old teacher falling for a 15 year old schoolboy is dysfunctional, then you really need to see a shrink. Comparing their relationship, back then, to the Trumps is pathetic. The Trumps are both consenting ADULTS.
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Avatar benz4ever 9 hours ago
Mother and son?
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Avatar Dr. Pierce 9 hours ago
He married a grandma! These two are going to open up the floodgates and allow millions of Africans and Muslims to invade.
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Avatar Amber 6 hours ago
So he was 15 when they met and his teacher? wasn't there a just a national 2 week long manhunt for a 15 year old girl who ran away with her teacher?
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Avatar F. 9 hours ago
So I see that Obama interfered in the French Election!
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Avatar Not My Problem 9 hours ago
creepy. Very creepy. Nice one France.
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Avatar Stephen 9 hours ago
France just jumped from the pan into the fire. This is not going to turn out well......
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Avatar Terri T 8 hours ago
She's a French Mary Kay LeTourneau, except that MK spent seven years in jail before she could marry her student beau. Sick.
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Avatar greg 9 hours ago
france has sealed their fate. Germany now controls europe. Its time england stands up to them again and gets out of brexit
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Avatar Hew 9 hours ago
That is some picture isn't it. The stinky Frenchman and his former teacher , who happens to be old enough to be his mom. The frenchies are some really sick people. Liberal loons make me sick
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Avatar Raymond 9 hours ago
She looks damn good for 64.
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Avatar daryl 9 hours ago
Is that Macrons mommy? You French folks are in big trouble. Germany better watch out!
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Avatar Raven 9 hours ago
The problem is not that she is older. The problem is that he was 15 and she his teacher when they hooked up.
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Avatar GRACE 9 hours ago
Now I won't have a reason to go to France ever
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Avatar Tucker 9 hours ago
I was a fool to even think France could have voted smarter.
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Avatar Siskel Ebertis 9 hours ago
Prepare for many more attacks in France as she opens the flood gates for refugees.
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Avatar canbutwont 9 hours ago
France R.I.P
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Avatar Jickith 6 hours ago
Macron is part of the establishment, and marrying his teacher like this is strange.... Macron is nothing more than a younger Hollande who has banking skills. We all knew Le Pen would lose because most of France are so liberal and are ready to kill themselves nationally culturally and spiritually to be part of this new world order. I feel sorry for those who voted for Le Pen, for they are the ones who don't deserve to suffer and watch their heritage fall, but I say let them come to us in the US, we welcome all conservatives. It was nice knowing France while it lasted.
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Avatar Uncle Sam Gone Bad 9 hours ago
Her job won't be too hard -- All she has to do is answer the phone and then hand it to Macron when orders come in from Merkel and the Rothschild's banks, but had they met in the US, Brigitte would be on a registered sex offender list and not allowed one thousand feet from any schoolyard.
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Avatar Matthew A 9 hours ago
Apparently teachers having sex with students is OK if it's European.
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Where are the Id...ts that wanted to kill a Nigerian teacher Immanuel Ifediata for airing his views on marriage, the fools are all silent now because a western liberal did it All those OLD CARGOES like Linda Ikeji and other frustrated spinsters for life
Shame on you all.
Men should marry women YOUNG , 20 years is the ideal , even medically. Dried up old cargoes can hug transformer.

Useless old women , went around f..cking any pointed thing and now they want tontell us how to structure family. Smh.
Nigerian ladies older than 30 should not be married, they almost always come with too much baggage, health and otherwise.

Useless media idiots , if a man as much as admits he has feelings for a 15 year old student of his he would be roasted alive by the shameless media, including useless bloggers like Linda Ikeji, now the tables are turned and it is suddenly inspirational for a teacher to have feelings for a.student young enough to be her son. Very bad taste.

Read the comments of the Yankees, and see how nasty this French creeps look.

This gives hope to our 30 something years old sisters, the guys of their dream are not yet born.

abbeyty:
This gives hope to our 30 something years old sisters, the guys of their dream are not yet born.

Abi! The practice of delaying marriage of ladies is useless. An old lady is a very bad marriage material. She can't have healthy children , and will have her marriage constantly under threat of.younger rivals. If ladies insist on working to make money and compete with men they should consider marriage the opportunity cost. NO TO MARRIAGE OF OLD LADIES.

Old girls litter this country, but that doesn't mean they have to be married. This generation of old spinsters should be sacrificed to correct the trend, all men should face the young ones and start building the culture if marrying off all girls by the time they are 23-ish.
That way we reduce the incidence of Down's syndrome and other sicknesses gotten from old mothers.