Brigitte Macron
| Brigitte Macron | |
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| Spouse of the President of the French Republic | |
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Assumed office 14 May 2017 |
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| President | Emmanuel Macron |
| Preceded by | Julie Gayet (de facto) |
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| Born |
Brigitte Marie-Claude Trogneux 13 April 1953 Amiens, Somme, France |
| Spouse(s) |
André-Louis Auzière (m. 1974; div. 2006) Emmanuel Macron (m. 2007) |
| Relations | Jean-Michel Macron (father-in-law) |
| Children | 3 |
| Parents | Simone Pujol Jean Trogneux |
| Residence | Élysée Palace |
| Occupation | High school teacher |
Brigitte Marie-Claude Macron (French pronunciation: [bri.ʒit ma.ʁi klodə ma.kʁɔ᷉]; née Trogneux, pronounced [tʁɔ.ɲø], previously Auzière, French pronunciation: [o.zjɛːʁ]; born 13 April 1953) is the wife and former high school teacher of Emmanuel Macron, the President of the French Republic. In 2015, to help support her husband in his political career, she ended her career as a teacher of literature at the elite lycée Saint-Louis de Gonzague in Paris.
Brigitte Macron was born Brigitte Marie-Claude Trogneux in Amiens, France. Her parents were Simone (née Pujol; 1910–1998) and Jean Trogneux (1909–1994), the owners of the five-generation Chocolaterie Trogneux, founded in 1872 in Amiens. The company, now known as Jean Trogneux, is run by her nephew, Jean-Alexandre Trogneux. She was the youngest of her parents' six children.
Brigitte Auzière taught literature at the Collège Lucie-Berger in Strasbourg in the 1980s. By the 1990s, she taught French and Latin at Lycée la Providence, a Jesuit high school in Amiens. It was at that high school that she and Emmanuel Macron first met. He attended her literature classes and she was in charge of the theater class he attended. Their romance was not typical as she was his senior by 24 years and 8 months, and Macron has described it as "a love often clandestine, often hidden, misunderstood by many before imposing itself".
Brigitte Auzière ran for the city council of Truchtersheim in 1989, but lost. It would be the only time she would run for office.
In 2017, Brigitte Macron played an active role in her husband's presidential campaign; a top adviser was quoted as saying that "her presence is essential for him". Macron stated that upon his winning of the French presidency, his wife "will have the role that she always had with me, she will not be hidden".
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