INTRODUCTION
When the couple arrived in Vietnam at the beginning of a Southeast Asia tour, Emmanuel Macron’s wife, Brigitte, appeared to slap or shove him in the face in a video that was forced to be played down by his office.
Prior to his descent from the presidential plane on Sunday, Brigitte Macron, the wife of the French president, seems to have shoved her husband.
Her body language could not be seen because she was concealed behind the fuselage of the aircraft. Then the pair went down the stairs together.
“It was a moment when the president and his wife were relaxing one last time before the start of the trip by having a laugh,” said an Elysee official, downplaying the incident and denying it revealed a fight between the couple.
How the parents of Emmanuel Macron found out their son was seeing a teacher who was forty years old
French President Emmanuel Macron’s parents were shocked to learn that their 16-year-old son was having an affair with his married teacher, according to a new biography of the president.
Centrist Macron’s marriage to Brigitte Trogneux, a woman 24 years his senior, has received a lot of attention. He first met her as a 15-year-old schoolboy when she was a teacher at La Providence, a private school in Amiens, northern France.
The author of Emmanuel Macron: A Perfect Young Man, Anne Fulda, discussed the scandalous affair that started when Ms. Trogneux was a married mother of three at the age of 39 in an interview with the politician’s parents.
Before a family friend revealed the truth, the schoolboy’s parents thought their son was seeing Laurence, the daughter of his teacher.
The Macrons, who were shocked by the extramarital affair, expelled the bright youngster from school.
Francoise Nogues-Macron, his mother, said to Ms. Fulda: “We simply couldn’t believe it.” It is evident that we were unable to simply say, “That’s fantastic,” when Emmanuel first met Brigitte.
The fact that he was alive and there were no issues, however, was more important to her than the fact that he was seeing Brigitte.
She reportedly told the teacher, “Don’t you see?,” after realizing that the affair would not be a fleeting phase. Your life is over. However, he refuses to have children with you.
When he found out about his son’s lover, his father, Jean-Michel Macron, admitted he “almost fell off his chair”: “When Emmanuel met Brigitte, we certainly did not say, ‘How wonderful!'”
When the distraught parents confronted Ms. Trogneux, they asked her to refrain from seeing their son until he was an adult, but she firmly refused, saying she couldn’t “promise anything.”
However, Manette, the future president’s maternal grandmother, was surprisingly sympathetic.
In reference to her grandchildren’s romantic relationships, Francoise recalled: “My mother, who would never have tolerated such a situation for her own children, showed herself to be much more open and tolerant.”
The schoolboy was supposed to attend the esteemed Lycee Henri IV in Paris for his final year of education, according to both parents, who deny any indication that they would have threatened to expel him from the house.
The young Macron attended his future wife’s drama lessons, which she taught as a second subject, rather than her French classes.
She remembers being amazed by his “exceptional intelligence, a way of thinking that I had never seen before,” and she claimed that “all the teachers were buzzing about Emmanuel” when she first arrived at La Provence.
When the unlikely couple co-wrote a play together, they became close. Years later, Ms. Trogneux confided in a friend: “You know, I felt like I was working with Mozart on the day we wrote the play together.
“The writing turned into a justification. I had the impression that we had known one another for ages.
Last year, the new First Lady of France told Paris Match magazine that a resolutely romantic Macron had promised to marry her at the age of 17, saying he would return to find her once he was sent to the capital.
“You can’t let me go. He is cited as saying, “I will return and wed you.”
“I had to fight in order to live both my private and my professional life as I wish,” Mr. Macron recalled, recalling that his parents “took it badly” when they learned of the affair.
“I had to fight, and it wasn’t the most straightforward or easy thing to do, nor did it fit with accepted norms.”
In 2007, when she was 54 and he was 29, the couple finally got married. At the wedding reception, he became a very young stepfather to her three adult children, saying to them, “Thanks for accepting us, a not-quite-normal couple.”
At 39, Mr. Macron became the youngest president of France in history. His wife, who is now 64, was also 39 when they first met.
Given that men in positions of authority are typically married to much younger women, many commentators have claimed that the fixation on their age difference is an example of deeply rooted misogyny.
Although Ms. Trogneux’s exact responsibilities as First Lady are still unknown, it is anticipated that, as a former educator, she will focus on education reform.
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