The magazine M of World chose to cover it with Brigitte Macron, an influential French personality who leaves no one indifferent. In this portrait which combines investigation and interview, we discover a little better this woman who married in 2007 the one who would become the youngest president of the Fifth Republic: Emmanuel Macron. Being her first ally, she has a front row seat alongside the leader, in the most prestigious moments like this November 12 for the Paris Forum dinner, in the company of Vice-President Kamala Harris, as in the most difficult, for example this June 8, 2021 when the President of the French Republic is slapped. How did she find out about this news? Journalists from Le Monde who met him last September, took stock of his experience after this scene.
The incident occurs during a walkabout in Tain-l’Hermitage in Drôme as part of his Tour de France des Territoires during which his wife had accompanied him. Emmanuel Macron wishes to be in contact with the French during his travels, but it turns out badly. Before the video of the act loops in the media and social networks, the Elysée advisers are alerted but they are not the ones who will warn the first lady. Emmanuel Macron wants to warn her himself, indicates The world, so as not to worry him. She specifies: “He told me about it over the phone as he tells me about his day.“He obviously did not want to dramatize things, but this gesture which was not trivial should be punished. Its author, Damien Tarel, was thus sentenced to 18 months in prison, including 14 months suspended.
This violence signals the start of the presidential campaign that everyone announces as terrible. Could she be confirming her husband’s commitment to a second term as the election deadline approaches? Brigitte Macron returns the question: “And you, do you think this campaign is going to be violent?“Then adds with humor:”If he is a candidate, I will continue to do what I am doing, president’s wife. I’m not going to start wearing ‘Vote Macron’ t-shirts.“According to the authors of the book The traitor and nothingness by Gérard Davet and Fabrice Lhomme, the first lady Frenchwoman would not have said no to the idea of finding a little calm, rest and enjoying her family, she who is the mother of three children, born from her marriage to André-Louis Auzière and grandmother of seven grandchildren. But whatever the decision of the Head of State, the committed citizen that is Brigitte Macron will be there, by his side.