It has been “her” school since 2019. To support adults over 25 who have dropped out of work, Brigitte Macron launched the LIVE campuses (the Vocations Institute for Employment) with the support of Bernard Arnault and the group LVMH. A beautiful story which has just experienced a new chapter, this Monday, April 29, in Reims, where the First Lady had arranged to meet for the inauguration of this campus. The 5th in France after Clichy-sous-Bois, Roubaix, Marseille and Valence. “I’m so happy to be here.”immediately enthused Emmanuel Macron’s wife, who closely followed the work of his new school “of the third chance“. Like Bernard Arnault, president of the LVMH group, and Catherine Vautrin, Minister of Labor and former president of Grand Reims, who accompanied him for this inaugural visit.
The opportunity for her to meet four “livers”, who came to Reims to bear witness to their journey. There is Laura, a former caregiver who had to retrain after an accident, or Madame Martin, who today manages a driving school in Gagny, after leaving the world of work to take care of her mother. sick. She is one of the 80% of people who found a job after 18 weeks of free training. “When you reach fifty, it’s complicated and there, I learned to highlight my seniority“, she confides, with words that touch Brigitte Macron. “I want to express my admiration to the Livers, you have questioned yourself and it’s hard. You are courageous, you are my coaches, you boost me!“, applauds the First Lady, seen as particularly complicit with Bernard Arnault – several of whose children were his students – but also with Catherine Vautrin, who was not far from being Prime Minister before Élisabeth Borne. Warm words, smiles… Brigitte Macron, dressed in a navy blue outfit, also thought of amusing the room by evoking Le Havre, where a school will be opened at the start of the next school year.The place is going to be original, Édouard Philippe showed me a building and I said, “Is that a barracks?” He replied: ‘no, no, it’s an architect’s house’.
Brigitte Macron, still a teacher
Present for the “livers”, including without the cameras, since she gives lessons once a month on the different campuses, Brigitte Macron put her professorial clothes back on a few hours later. Like at the time when she was called “Madame Auzière”. On the program: a masterclass on 19th century literature. Enough to provoke new excitement… and put pressure on members of the campus? “No, at first it’s a little scary, but after 10 minutes you forget that it’s the First Ladyconfides Madame Martin, who attended the LIVE in Clichy-sous-Bois. She puts us at ease! Someone so important who takes the time to help us, to talk to us, to uplift us… It gives us confidence“, summarizes the fifty-year-old, proud to have been able to seize this new opportunity.
Photo credits: DR