Brigitte Macron
Brigitte Macron (née Trogneux; born April 13, 1953) is French former teacher, who has been the Spouse of the President of France since May 14, 2017 as the wife of the 25th President of France, Emmanuel Macron. She is a retired literature professor and is now the president of the Hospital Foundation since 2019.
Brigitte Macron
Biography[edit]
Family[edit]
Brigitte Marie-Claude Trogneux comes from a family of Amiens chocolatiers renowned for their macarons, since the creation of the Trogneux company in 1872.
She is the daughter of Jean Trogneux (1909-1994) and his wife Simone Pujol (1913-1998). The couple had six children, of whom Brigitte Trogneux is the youngest.
Raised in a Catholic environment, she attended the private Sacré-Cœur high school in Amiens, which is run by nuns.
As an adult, she defines herself as a, “Catholic, non-practicing believer.”
She was 8 years old when her sister, Maryvonne Trogneux, died in a car accident with her husband in 1961.
Her older brother, Jean-Claude Trogneux, manager of the Trogneux chocolate factory, died in 2018, at the age of 85.
Another of her sisters, Monique Trogneux, has been the wife of Jean-Claude Gueudet since 1963. The latter, a member of the Gueudet family, possesses one of the largest car dealerships in the country. Challenges magazine ranks him in the top 500 of the greatest fortunes in France.
Her other brother and sister are Jean-Michel and Anne-Marie Trogneux.
Heritage[edit]
Brigitte Macron owns a house in Le Touquet that is estimated to be worth 1.4 million euros.
Near this house, Brigitte Macron has several commercial premises which she rents out to a real estate agency as well as a ready-to-wear boutique. She inherited all of these assets from her father.
First marriage[edit]
On June 22, 1974, Brigitte Trogneux married André-Louis Auzière (1951-2019) at Touquet-Paris-Plage. The couple had three children: Sébastien Auzière (1975), statistical engineer, graduate of the National School of Statistics and Information Analysis, Laurence Auzière (1977), cardiologist, and Tiphaine Auzière (1984), lawyer. The couple separated when Brigitte met Emmanuel Macron.
According to the biography He had just turned seventeen by the journalist Sylvie Bommel, the separation was conflictual. André-Louis Auzière refusing to attend his mother's funeral to avoid seeing Brigitte makes this quite apparent. The divorce was officially pronounced on January 26, 2006. Following Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron's relationship becoming public, André-Louis Auzière refused any interviews. He died on December 24, 2019 at the age of 68.
Brigitte Macron is a grandmother of seven grandchildren.
Professional career[edit]
Brigitte Trogneux obtained her baccalauréat with honors in 1972, at the age of 19, from Sacré-Cœur high school in Amiens. She then pursued higher education and obtained a master's degree in literature, focusing her final dissertation on "courtly love."
In the early 1980s, Brigitte worked as a press officer at the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Chamber of Commerce for two years. In 1984, following André-Louis Auzière's transfer, the family moved to Truchtersheim (Bas-Rhin). In 1986, she passed the CAPES exam in classical letters. From 1986 to 1991, she taught French and Latin at Lucie Berger College, a private Protestant school in Strasbourg. During this time, she became involved in community and political life, running on the independent list 'Truchtersheim Tomorrow' in the 1989 municipal elections, although she was not elected. The family then relocated to Amiens, where she taught French and Latin at La Providence, a private Jesuit high school. In 2007, she moved to Paris to teach at Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, a private Jesuit high school commonly known as Franklin.
She was a French teacher for the children of Bernard Arnault.
In September 2015, Brigitte stopped teaching to devote herself to the career of Emmanuel Macron, and was placed on leave from National Education.
Meeting with Emmanuel Macron[edit]
During the 1992-1993 school year, she led a theater workshop at the Providence high school. Among her students, she noticed Emmanuel Macron , then aged 15 and a second year student in the same class as her daughter Laurence Auzière. An end-of-year theater performance is organized where Emmanuel Macron plays a scarecrow in the adaptation of the collection of plays La Comédie du langage, by Jean Tardieu. About their first meeting, she declared having been “totally captivated by the intelligence of this boy”. The following school year, she worked again together with Emmanuel Macron, who was in first grade, to rewrite the play The Art of Comedy by Eduardo De Filippo , in which her eldest daughter Laurence Auzière also participated. At Paris Match, Brigitte Macron declared a posteriori that “writing brought us together every Friday and triggered an incredible closeness”. From then on, they begin a romantic relationship.
The age difference (of more than twenty-four years) between the two lovers caused a scandal in the Trogneux family, especially since their relationship could fall under article 227-27 of the Penal Code , which enshrines the offense of sexual assault of a minor, and which now provides that a teacher who has sexual relations with a minor student aged over 15 years faces up to three years in prison. Their relationship continued discreetly in Paris, where Emmanuel Macron entered final year, then literary preparatory classes at the Henri-IV high school.
On October 20, 2007, Brigitte married Emmanuel Macron at Touquet-Paris-Plage, where she owns a house. Her new husband, then a financial inspector, left the civil service to join the Rothschild bank.
Public life of the Macron couple[edit]
In 2012, Emmanuel Macron entered politics. The couple then attracted the attention of the media, who saw in the interest aroused by their age difference proof of the evolution of opinion on the matter.
On June 2, 2015, on the occasion of the visit of King Felipe VI of Spain and his wife Letizia Ortiz, Brigitte Macron posed for the first time on the steps of the Élysée Palace at his side.
With her younger daughter Tiphaine Auzière — substitute for Thibault Guilluy, candidate of La République en Marche in the 4th constituency of Pas-de-Calais in the 2017 legislative elections — Brigitte Macron is involved in her husband's 2017 presidential campaign. At first omnipresent, it then takes a back seat while continuing to play an important role with the candidate.