BRIGITTE MACRON. Brigitte Macron appeared at Emmanuel Macron’s investiture ceremony on May 7, 2022. But from Tiphaine Auzière to Jean-Michel and Françoise Macron, it was the entire Macron clan who also responded…
[Mis à jour le 7 mai 2022 à 12h25] She will be the First Lady for five more years! “I’m ready”, launched Brigitte Macron the evening of April 24 after Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the presidential election. Ready to play her role with her husband and President of the Republic. This Saturday, May 7, 2022, Brigitte Macron was, as always, alongside the Head of State for the investiture of Emmanuel Macron in his second term.
Like her husband, Brigitte Macron, 69, is also returned to the Elysee Palace as First Lady. A role of which she now knows the ropes. However, “you never get used to it”, she explained on the Champ-de-Mars after the second round of the presidential election. Despite what seems to hide a slight apprehension, she said she was proud to receive “such a great honor [elle] hope to be worthy”.
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Who are Brigitte Macron’s children?
At the Elysée, Emmanuel Macron opted for a sober and short ceremony this Saturday, an hour and a half at most. And as when they moved to the Elysée Palace in 2017, Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron were surrounded by their blended family to experience this solemn moment. Starting with Laurence and Tiphaine Auzière, the daughters of Brigitte Macron.
Married for the first time at the age of 21 to André Louis Auzière, who died in 2019, Brigitte Macron indeed had three children from this union: Sébastien, Laurence and Tiphaine. Rather absent from the media, the children of Brigitte Macron speak little but on several occasions, the youngest of the family, Tiphaine, has expressed her very good relations with her stepfather, Emmanuel Macron. An opinion apparently shared by his brother and sister.
Tiphaine Auzière is undoubtedly the personality of the Macron clan who has been the most exposed in the last 5 years. The young woman, a lawyer at the Boulogne-sur-Mer bar, is the mother of two daughters, Elise and Aurélie, born of her union with Antoine Choteau. Tiphaine Auzière was committed with conviction to the 2017 campaign. The youngest daughter of Brigitte Macron, within the siblings of three children born of the union of Brigitte Trogneux with her first husband, the banker André-Louis Auzière, 37 years. Tiphaine Auzière has set up an En Marche! in the Hauts-de-Seine and went to all the big meetings of the candidate for his first campaign. She will then be invested as a substitute candidate for the legislative elections in the 4th constituency of Pas-de-Calais, behind the candidate of La République en Marche Thibault Guilly. In 2019, she co-hosted a meeting in Pas-de-Calais as part of the great national debate. She also made people talk about her the same year by creating the hashtag “#balancetonmiso” after Jair Bolsonaro’s unkind remarks towards her mother. In 2020, she announced in Paris Match to participate in the creation of an off-contract high school called “Autrement”, a high school pointed out for its exorbitant tuition fees.
Eldest daughter of Brigitte Macron, Laurence Auzière-Jourdan is therefore also a daughter-in-law of Emmanuel Macron. Cardiologist in Vincennes, Laurence Auzière played a more discreet role than her younger sister Tiphaine in the campaigns of her father-in-law Emmanuel Macron. His first public appearance of support dates from April 17, 2017, at a large meeting in Bercy. But Laurence Auzière was not satisfied with a role of spectator: our colleagues from Paris Match nicknamed her 5 years ago the “anti-stress fairy” of the centrist candidate, because the specialist in cardiovascular risk factors offered medical advice on not getting overwhelmed by the whirlwind of the campaign at the time.
Laurence Auzière-Jourdan is married to Guillaume Jourdan with whom she had three children, Emma, Thomas and Alice. Laurence Auzière is the same age as Emmanuel Macron, 44. She was also in the same class as him, at the Lycée de la Providence in Amiens. It was Brigitte Auzière’s eldest daughter who told her about Emmanuel Macron, 15 at the time, exclaiming: “There is a madman in my class who knows everything about everything!” according to Candice Nedelec and Caroline Derrien, the authors of “Les Macron” (Fayard).
Eldest son of Brigitte Macron and only boy of the siblings, Sébastien Auzière is a statistician engineer and married to Christelle Lorenzato with whom he had two children, Camille and Paul. The couple met at the National School of Statistics and Information Analysis. Sébastien Auzière, 47, is three years older than his stepfather. He appeared for the first time in public at Emmanuel Macron’s meeting in Bercy on April 17, 2017, like his sister Laurence Auzière. But he, contrary to appearances, played a real role in the campaign at the time, since he was responsible for managing the future president’s social networks.
The two sons-in-law of Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron actively participated in the first campaign, in 2017. Antoine Choteau, gastroenterologist surgeon in Le Touquet and Guillaume Jourdan, cardiologist in Meaux, towed on local markets, as recalled by Paris Match, and put up posters in their respective waiting rooms. Their participation in the 2022 campaign was not mentioned.
Brigitte Macron is a grandmother of 7 grandchildren. Emmanuel Macron, who has no biological children, but thus has “grandchildren of the heart”, aged 1 to 11 years old. “I don’t need them to be my children on a biological level to give them as much love as I give them,” he confided of his “emotional” offspring to BFMTV during his first campaign in 2017. .
Jean-Michel and Françoise Nogues-Macron, the parents of the Head of State, have been divorced for several years. A retired social security doctor, Emmanuel Macron’s mother remains in the background of the media. In Emmanuel Macron’s biography, it is also overshadowed by the exclusive relationship between Emmanuel Macron and his maternal grandmother, Germaine, who died in 2013 and to whom he says he owes his commitment to politics. Professor of neurology at the University Hospital of Amiens, Jean-Michel Macron, for his part, has been the subject of a little more attention. In a handful of interviews given since 2017, there is no shortage of pride in the journey of this son propelled into the light. In the book of the political journalist Anne Fulda “A young man so perfect” (Ed. Plon), he confided about his child: “He has always had a fantastic charisma. (…) he is very gifted for human relations.”
More recently, Jean-Michel Macron was part of L’Est Républicain saying “to approve 90%” of the decisions of the Head of State and found the French “very ungrateful”. While the parents of Emmanuel Macron have not always seen with a very good eye his love affair with Brigitte Trogneux, 24 years his senior. Asked about this “resentment”, he replied: “Perhaps more Emmanuel’s mother than me”, before continuing: “It’s fine, we talk to each other. We don’t hit each other”.
Emmanuel Macron has a brother, Laurent, two years his junior. This brother, who remained very discreet in the media, officiates as a doctor specializing in heart radiology in the Paris region, according to Gala. Emmanuel Macron’s sister, Estelle Macron, five years his junior, is a nephrologist (kidney disease specialist) near Toulouse. The youngest of the Macron siblings held the policy of not speaking to journalists throughout the campaign and continues to do so.
Emmanuel Macron has, in addition to his brother and sister, a half-brother. Named Gabriel and mentioned by Paris Match from 2017, the latter was barely 2 years old at the time of the marriage of Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte Trogneux, on October 20, 2007. Emmanuel Macron and his half-brother total 28 years of difference. On his large blended family, the president confided in the press: “There is in our case much more love than sometimes in conventional families”.
Brigitte Macron’s age, a concern?
In addition to the family of the Head of State and his couple, the age difference between Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron has been a very commented subject for more than 5 years now. One would have thought that a renewal at the Elysée worried the First Lady, 69 years old. The latter has also spoken several times on the subject, between humor and concern. In 2016, during Emmanuel Macron’s first campaign, the book “Emmanuel Macron en marche vers l’Élysée” by Nicolas Prissette indeed reported these words: “He has to go there in 2017 because in 2022, his problem will be my face”. The age difference of the Macron couple was already hammered by all the media at the time and the First Lady feared to harm her husband and to do more during an election in 2022.
A fear that had not disappeared during this second campaign. Journalist Gérard Davet explained to the Gala newspaper last fall that Brigitte Macron “wanted a simpler life and that she was moderately fond of the idea of a second term”, according to the confidences of the couple’s relatives. Exhausted by the 2017 campaign, during which she would have badly experienced the hype about her age and her private life, she was still reluctant. “She wouldn’t have a very positive view of her age either,” added the great reporter from Le Monde newspaper. At the same time, the evening newspaper, precisely, devoted a portrait to him entitled “the coach of the Elysée”. And Le Monde put these doubts in the mouth of the First Lady: “The French would undoubtedly have preferred a younger ‘first lady’… I know, we are an atypical couple, we are twenty-four years apart, I understand that it may surprise, that we are not understood, but I do not understand the aggressiveness”, affirmed Brigitte Macron.
Obviously, five years later, the age of Brigitte Macron has not prejudiced the candidacy of the head of state. After the re-election of Emmanuel Macron, Brigitte Macron assured of her pride in her husband and was apparently delighted to see him re-enlist for a second term: “I am so happy for him. I lived these five years, these five years of work. He has an ambition for France, I know where he wants to go and he will do everything to get there. I hope that we will understand him and that we will follow him. I have immense confidence in him.” As far as she is concerned, the tone was more one of humility and the First Lady promised to do “what[elle] little[t] for French women and men” while specifying, “in my niche of course”. Far be it from her to get involved in politics publicly, the teacher has always been careful not to encroach on this area. .