French President’s Wife Age – Early Life And Career

Brigitte Macron is a 71-year-old lady and the wife of the current French President, Emmanuel Macron; she is very dedicated to education and has greatly impacted the French cultural sphere.

Her full name is Brigitte Marie-Claude Trogneux, and she was born on the 15th of February 1953 in Amiens, France, as the last born child in a family of six children to Simone and Jean Trogneux.

The family is famous for the five-generation chocolatier named Jean Trogneux, which was established in 1872, and her nephew Jean-Alexandre Trogneux works at the moment.

Early Life And Career

Brigitte entered the field of education in the 1980s when she was assigned to teach literature at the Collège Lucie-Berger in Strasbourg. By the 1990s, she had moved to teaching French and Latin at Lycée la Providence, a Jesuit-run high school in Amiens. Her teaching career was characterized by passion and desire to instill the spirit of learning as well as a love for literature among the learners.

From 2007 to 2015, she also pursued her teaching profession at Lycée Saint-Louis de Gonzague, Paris, which is among the elite private schools in France. In there she was teaching the sons of Bernard Arnault, a French businessman, thus proving her influence in the academic world.

Meeting Emmanuel Macron

Brigitte Macron’s life changed dramatically after she met Emmanuel Macron at the after-school drama club of Lycée la Providence. Emmanuel was a 15-year-old student and was in the theater club that was managed by Brigitte.

This relationship was initially considered scandalous because they were nearly 25 years apart in age; however, this turned into a beautiful love story. Macron himself had frequently characterized their romance as “a love, often secret, often concealed, which many people did not understand before it forced itself upon them.”

Personal Life

Before her relationship with Emmanuel Macron, Brigitte was married to banker André-Louis Auzière, with whom she had three children: Three characters are presented in the book: Sébastien, Laurence, and Tiphaine. The family was residing in Truchtersheim before they relocated to Amiens in 1991.

Brigitte’s marriage to Auzière was dissolved in January 2006 and later on, on 20 October 2007, she married Emmanuel Macron. Presently, she is a grandmother to seven grandchildren.

Role as France’s First Lady

Being the wife of the current President of France, Brigitte Macron, has taken up a position that is both official and activist in nature. She has advocated for education, disability, and health-related issues due to her authority in the house.

She is elegant, has a good sense of fashion, and has also revolutionized the role of a presidential spouse.