Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron met at La Providence high school in Amiens. She was a teacher, he was a student. From theater workshops to the presidency of the Republic, the one who is today first lady has never been able to leave the head of state. A look back at their unusual love story.
They weren’t meant to be together. When they meet, at La Providence high school in Amiens (Somme), Brigitte Auzière (the name of her first husband, André-Louis) is 40 years old, married and mother of three children. Emmanuel Macron, he is 16 years old and a student in first. The French and Latin teacher has already heard of this high school student, described by her daughter Laurence as “a madman who knows everything about everything”. She sees him for the first time when he goes to the high school acting workshop, which she hosts. Brigitte Auzière is very quickly impressed by the intelligence of Emmanuel Macron. “He was not like the others, always with the teachers, always with lots of books. He was not a teenager. He had a relationship of equals with all the adults“she remembers, in the documentary by Pierre Hurel, Macron, the meteor strategywhose words are relayed by West France. For his part, the young student quickly falls under the spell of his theater teacher.
The rumor of a budding love affair between Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte Auzière grows over the weeks. To prevent this relationship, the teacher changes school and the parents of the high school student decide to send their son to Paris for the rest of his studies. But the latter would have assured the one he fell in love with: “You won’t get rid of me. I will come back and marry you.“ A promise kept a few years later. While studying at the Henri-IV high school, at Sciences Po then at the ENA, the one who is now President of the Republic and his future wife remain in contact. Until the day when, in 2006, Brigitte Auzière took a radical decision: she wants a divorce.
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A choice she does not regret. “There are times in your life when you make vital choices. And for me, it was. (…) If I hadn’t made that choice, I would have missed out on my life“she told She, shortly after her husband’s election as head of state in 2017. It was then that the French teacher was transferred to a Parisian high school, to be closer to Emmanuel Macron. And, on October 20, 2007, the couple finally formalizes their love at the town hall of Le Touquet (Pas de Calais). The resident of the Élysée was then able to find his place with the children of his companion. “Emmanuel took his place naturally in the family, without rushing things. When I went out too late, he yelled at me gently, saying to me: ‘Be cool, your mom is worried.’”recalls Thiphaine Auzière, one of Brigitte Macron’s daughters, in an interview for Vanity Fairrelayed by Gala.
Since then, Emmanuel Macron and the first lady live the perfect love. In 2015, Brigitte Macron left the National Education to devote herself to her family. She represents a real support for her husband and, although she does not have an official role, she seems to be an essential advisor. His opinion matters a lot to Emmanuel Macron. “She looks at him with a benevolent but critical lookshe doesn’t let him get by, she’s very cash”declared in particular Candice Nedelec, head of the political section of the magazine Galawho co-wrote the book The Macronsreleased in 2017.
In an interview for France Infoproduced in July 2020, Brigitte Macron also provided don’t fear the future and after Élysée. “Of course, the future can be worrying. But the future with Emmanuel is not worrying. He is a solid man, extremely reassuring and extremely kind. (…) I’m very lucky to be married to a man like him. and I have been certain of this every day for more than twenty years. » A bright future therefore seems to be looming for the couple. With five more years at the Élysée?