She is the wife of the President of the Republic for the second time, but who is really Brigitte Macron, the French teacher married to Emmanuel Macron since 2007?
Since April 2022, Brigitte Macron has been first lady for the second time after her husband Emmanuel Macron was re-elected President of the Republic. Like many before her, Brigitte Macron must thus embody support and stability with the one who leads France. The opportunity to look a little more at this former French teacher now married to a former student…
How old is Brigitte Macron and where is she from?
Born on April 13, 1953 in Amiens, in the north of France, Brigitte Macron has been 69 for a few months. She is 24 years older than Emmanuel Macron, born December 21, 1977, also in Amiens. The couple married on October 20, 2007 in Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, when Emmanuel Macron held the position of finance inspector before joining the Rothschild bank. Brigitte Marie-Claude Trogneux is the daughter of Jean Trogneux, chocolatier in Amiens, and Simone Pujol. She comes last in a family of six children two of whom died, his sister Maryvonne in 1961 and his brother Jean-Claude in 2018.
The meeting with Emmanuel Macron
Before being married to Emmanuel Macron, Brigitte Macron was married to André-Louis Auzière with whom she had three children: Sébastien Auzière born in 1975, Laurence Auzière born in 1977 and Tiphaine Auzière born in 1984. The eldest is now a statistician engineer, Laurence Auzière is a cardiologist and the youngest is a lawyer specializing in business law.
It was his first daughter that Emmanuel Macron, born the same year, rubbed shoulders with the Jesuit high school of Providence in Amiens, where he was part of the theater group led by Brigitte Macron. He was then only 15 when she noticed him on stage, as she had already explained in the documentary Emmanuel Macron, the meteor strategy : “I thought he was incredible on stage, what a presence!“. As he goes to the premiere, the young Emmanuel Macron continues the theater and has a crush on this professor who supervises him, to whom he makes a statement. Married, with three children and 24 years older than this young minor, Brigitte Auzière at the time rejected him. But not for long since she is already under the spell. “Definitely, he was not like the others. He was always with the teachers and he always had lots of books. He was not a teenager, I was totally overwhelmed by the intelligence of this boy” she said in the documentary about the one who, despite everything, was indeed a teenager.
The student and his teacher start an affair that gets all of Amiens talking and against which all of Brigitte’s family warns her. She will end up encouraging Emmanuel to join the Lycée Henri IV in Paris for his senior year, where they will continue to see each other discreetly. Years later, on January 20, 2006, the divorce with André-Louis Auzière was pronounced and on October 20, 2007, Brigitte Trogneux married Emmanuel Macron.
Brigitte Macron, her looks and her beauty rituals
Beige suit, perfume, hair care… Brigitte Macron is certainly the first lady, but it is above all a woman who likes to take care of her appearance and herself. And she lets it know. On July 23, 2022, Brigitte Macron caused a sensation during the virtual summit of First Ladies and Gentlemen for the reconstruction of Ukraine. She had chosen to wear an oversized beige suit jacket with large lapels which seduced the public. An outfit reminiscent of another beige suit, worn during a visit to the Taj Mahal with Emmanuel Macron in 2018. Virtual conference, visit to the other side of the world… Whatever the circumstances, the first lady does rarely faux pas in terms of look, and this also goes through its cut.
It was only very recently that the secret of her always meticulously styled golden bob was revealed: Brigitte Macron wears hair extensions which always make her look flawless and primed. Finally on the perfume side, the first lady had revealed that when Emmanuel Macron is absent, she wears her perfume, Eau Sauvage by Christian Dior, to have the smell of her husband on her skin…
Controversies and rumors around Brigitte Macron
Like all political figures, Brigitte Macron is the target of many rumors and finds herself from time to time at the heart of some controversy. The subject of Brigitte Macron and the cigarette was, for example, discussed at the end of 2021, but it was not to say that the first lady was a smoker. If Emmanuel Macron’s wife has been talked about in this context, it is precisely becauseshe does not like the smell of tobacco. In a survey of World of November 2021, it was revealed that works worth one million euros had been undertaken at the Elysée, in particular because according to Brigitte Macron, “the tapestries smelled of tobacco“. A priori, only Emmanuel Macron allows himself a cigarette from time to time, especially when Madame is absent…
The first lady also had to face a controversy that has a hard skin: that of his so-called hidden identity, Jean-Michel Trogneux. It has in fact been some time people accuse him of actually being a man, who would be named Jean-Michel Trogneux, the same surname as her maiden name. Serious accusations that prompted Brigitte Macron to sue for transphobic comments. But where did these rumors that the first lady would be a man come from? Well it would come from a conspiratorial video posted on Youtube in December 2021 and having been consulted more than 400,000 times, which would simply state that Brigitte Macron is transgender and that she is actually a man.
During an appearance on January 14, 2022 on RTL, the first lady addressed this lingering rumor explaining : “There are three levels. The first level is the transmitters. In this case, these are women. Transmitters who apparently have been chasing me for a long time – I don’t know, I don’t go on social media. Then there are those who relay and amplify, and there are, of course, the hosts”, namely the media and social networks. Accused of havingchanged his family treeBrigitte Macron ended up summon two women before the Paris court on February 18, for invasion of privacy, violation of personality rights and violation of image rights.