The age-different wife of French presidential candidate Macron 0
The age-different wife of French presidential candidate Macron
When Emmanuel Macron declared victory in the first round of the French presidential election on April 23, the politician who had not yet turned 40 (Mr. Macron was born on December 21, 1977)Â specially thanked his wife.
`Brigitte is always by my side. Without her, I wouldn’t be who I am today,` Macron said.
The crowd below chanted `Brigitte, Brigitte`.
The new wind in French politics also emphasizes the important role of the woman standing behind him.
`If I’m elected, no, sorry I said something wrong, when I’m elected, she will be here, next to me, with a clear position and position.`
`Emmanuel would not have embarked on this adventure without her,` asserted Marc Ferracci, Macron’s election adviser.
So who is Brigitte Trogneux?
Currently, with the keyword `Brigitte`, `Brigitte Macron` has replaced the famous French actress Brigitte Bardot to become the most searched name on Google.
This petite woman is the youngest child in a middle-class family in the city of Amiens, 120 km north of Paris.
Brigitte worked as a French and Latin teacher at a local private high school and was in charge of the school’s drama club.
In 1992, Emmanuel Macron, then a 15-year-old student, participated in a play and met Brigitte, a 39-year-old married woman with three children.
Macron first met his wife while participating in a school play called  `Jacques and his Master`.
The two people’s feelings gradually developed into love despite the strong prohibition from the Macron family.
Overcoming all social prejudices, their love finally blossomed in November 2007, at that time Emmanuel was 29 years old and Brigitte was 54 years old.
`When he decided to marry his mother, he came to us to announce it. That action was very strong, not everyone can do that. Emmanuel wanted to make sure that we, his fiancée’s stepchildren,
`The age gap makes many people have an unsympathetic view of this relationship, even families on both sides are hesitant,` Â Philippe Besson, a mutual friend of the couple, admitted.
`Especially in the case of older women, it always causes controversy.`
Brigitte just stopped teaching in 2016 to devote all her time to her husband’s career.
`He has an unusual intelligence and great personality. A philosopher became a banking expert and then a politician,` she praised her husband in an interview with Paris Match magazine.
Brigitte joked that she was `the president of the Macrons fan club` and that she `hasn’t seen anything her husband isn’t good at`.
According to CNN’s resident correspondent Jim Bittermann, French people do not gossip about the age difference between Mr. Macron and his wife.
`I think she is accepted by the people,` Bittermann said, `French voters do not vote based on evaluation of their private life.`
`With her standing next to him, Macron exudes the temperament of a mature, mature man,` Bittermann quoted a friend of the couple as saying.
