The new Prime Minister François Bayrou is the father of six children. A few years ago, he faced a difficult period during which he could no longer see one of his daughters.
This Friday, December 13, François Bayrou was appointed Prime Minister by Emmanuel Macron. An important new role for this father of six children and grandfather of twenty-one grandchildren. The children of the Bayrou couple are the pride of their parents: they have all completed their studies. The eldest Hélène is a khâgne teacher while Marie is a polytechnician. Their first son Dominique is a doctor and his brother Calixte is a veterinarian and teacher-researcher. For her part, Agnès has a doctorate in political science and the youngest of the siblings, André, is an associate professor of classics and a doctor in French literature.
That being said, the family went through a very complicated period around twenty years ago. François Bayrou revealed in An intimate ambitione faced with Karine Le Marchand in 2016, that one of her daughters had suffered from anorexia. “We had a daughter, who is doing very well today, who was very ill, who had anorexia,” he confided. The latter then had to be urgently hospitalized, without being able to say goodbye to her family. To concentrate on her treatment, she was obliged to cut ties with her family. “I was very, very upset,” said the president of Modem. He could neither visit her nor have direct contact with her.
A message broadcast on TV
Still wishing to speak to his daughter remotely, he asked a nurse to warn her that he was going to speak to her on a television show in which he was participating. He thus discreetly sent a message to his daughter on the air, which only the latter was able to understand. Although her daughter survived, this difficult period lasted two years.
François Bayrou also said that he had discussed this subject with one of his opponents in the 2002 presidential election, Jacques Chirac. The latter also had a daughter who suffered from anorexia for a long time. “As he had gone through the same thing, perhaps worse, we had thirty minutes of conversation, man to man, father to father, father’s soul to father’s soul,” he reported to the host.