The re-election of Emmanuel Macron this Sunday April 24, 2022 with 58.5% of the vote against Marine Le Pen once again shines the spotlight on the Head of State but also his entourage. Who is part of the family of this 44-year-old man, new President of the Republic? His wife Brigitte Macron, whom he married in 2007, is by his side, a close ally who remained more in the shadows during his second campaign. What about his little-known siblings? He has a sister, Estelle, born in 1982, nephrologist, married to Carl Franjou, engineer, as well as a brother, Laurent, radiologist, married to Sabine Aimot, gynecologist-obstetrician. The two men are two years apart, are furiously alike, but remain particularly discreet about their relationship.
Laurent Macron is, like his eldest Emmanuel, the son of neurologist Jean-Michel Macron, who recently made the news after his interview with the outgoing president, and Françoise Noguès, medical adviser to Social Security. After their divorce in 2010, Jean-Michel Macron married Hélène Joly, psychiatrist at CHS Pinel-Dury. In the past, according to Closer, the two brothers were not very close. During their university careers, if they did not choose the same path, the magazine indicates that their roommate was marked by differences: the future leader was very serious and already in a relationship with his beloved Brigitte, while the second relished his freedom as a student. Moreover, the younger of the two did not experience easily the political rise of his eldest from Minister of Economy François Hollande to President of the Republic. The journalist Sylvie Bommel wrote in her book published in 2014 He had just turned seventeen that he even presented himself as a “vague cousin“when he was asked if he had a connection with the tenant of the Elysée.
If he has not been seen often in the company of his illustrious brother since May 14, 2017 and his presidential inauguration, the most observant will have noticed the Macron brothers during the final of the Coupe de France between PSG and Rennes in 2019, very complicit. Next to the youngest of the family were his children. Their mother confided in the book As long as we’re both by Gaël Tchakaloff, explaining that if Emmanuel does not have children by choice, Laurent has four.
This April 24, 2022, Laurent Macron was there to celebrate his brother’s second victory. They kissed each other warmly and the emotion as well as the pride can be read on the face of Laurent Macron.