Described as a cathodic “big mouth”, the head of the emergency department at the Delafontaine hospital in Saint-Denis Mathias Wargon appears regularly in the media on the BFMTV or CNews channels. The Covid-19 health crisis has made him one of the best known figures in the world of caregivers, like another, Martin Blachier. In Paris Match two years ago, the man who proclaims his convictions loud and clear had been questioned with his wife who is none other thanEmmanuelle Wargon, Minister Delegate for Housing. A couple with passionate debates and solid love.
Married to the emergency physician Mathias Wargon, Emmanuelle Wargon born Stoléru has three children with him, born between 1998 and 2004. He is provocative and loves “the fight and the controversy“, which made him an ideal guest to react to information on the coronavirus that has punctuated the life of the whole world for two years. She is more “nuanced, sometimes a little padlocked” reports the magazine. It was with mutual friends that they met more than thirty years ago. They are students, in preparatory HEC for madam, in medicine for sir. They each come froma different environment since Emmanuelle Wargon is the daughter of an enarque mother and a polytechnician father, Lionel Stoléru, member of the Chirac and Barre governments then minister of openness under Michel Rocard. He is the son of newsagents settled in Bondy then in the Sentier in Paris, his grandfather died in deportation, a serious family trauma in his history. Of her husband’s family, she will say: “Mathias’ family, more intrusive, warmer than mine, adopted me very quickly.“
Together, they face intense jobs and also illness since they have each had the Covid-19 virus. “Confined with their three children aged 16 to 22, they started this period by spending two weeks in bed. They had ‘an intermediate version’ of the disease“, we read in Paris Match. The doctor will specify that he still has lung damage during the interview published in August 2020.
Politics obviously interferes in this duo and the Minister Delegate does not hesitate to say that they do not always agree because their vision of the left is not the same. Emmanuelle Wargon comes from the reformist wing while her husband is more on the left and his daily life as a doctor in 93 regularly reminds him of this, even if he admits to having become gentrified. He has already met the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron in 2020, when he invited the ministers and their spouses to dinner at the Elysée: “Half the people told him they follow him on Twitter“, she had fun saying to Paris Match.