Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy under Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term, can count on significant support: his wife of more than twenty years, Pauline. A look back at a love story that got off to a flying start, and that’s the case!
If Emmanuel Macron found love on the school benches, Bruno Le Maire meanwhile found his soul mate on the school benches.a driving school. Indeed, the former Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries met his beautiful, Pauline Doussau de Bazignan, by her maiden name, when he passed his code: “I met her in a driving school, we spent the code sessions”, he had indicated in a number ofAn intimate ambitionbroadcast on M6 in 2016. A meeting place rather unusual which nevertheless revealed to the politician the character of his future wifeand cracked him up: “There was a young girl, whom I thought was very cute, and each time a question had to be answered, she always answered something totally delusional.”
Bruno Le Maire was immediately fascinated by the woman who later became the mother of his four boys : Louis, Adrien, Barthelemy and Matthias. “I said to myself: ‘This girl is interesting because she does not respond like everyone else‘”, recalled this one, still at the microphone of Karine Le Marchand. But the former LREM deputy from Eure had to take out the oars to win over this intriguing student: “I invited her for a drink, then two, it was difficult. She didn’t want to at all, she thought my hair was too short and that I was much too clean on me.” And to add mischievously: “She was disappointed because, since then, my hair has always been so short.” A determination which was also mentioned by his friend Antonin Baudry, author of the comicsQuai d’OrsayandThe song of the wolfin the columns ofThe Obsin 2015 : “He told me: ‘I met the woman of my life, she did not see me. I will conquer it.’”
Pauline, “the landmark” of Bruno Le Maire
The efforts of Bruno le Maire ended up paying off. On August 8, 1998, the relative of Emmanuel Macron passed the ring on the finger to his favorite driving school at the Château de Trenquelléon, in Feugarolles, in Lot-et-Garonne. Despite radically different professionsPauline Bazignan being a painter fascinated by the representation of nature, the couple knew how to find their balance. “It’s my true landmark”, affirmed Bruno Le Maire in the columns of Madame Figaro in October 2016. A mutual admiration, Pauline having described her other half as “fair and balanced man” with Le Point in 2020.