CABANA. She is the one who has shared the life of Jean-Michel Blanquer for two years. Anna Cabana has become the wife of the Minister of National Education. But who is she?
To say that she is discreet and that their relationship is secret is an understatement. Despite their common notoriety, she a seasoned political journalist, him one of the most important ministers of Emmanuel Macron, Anna Cabana and Jean-Michel Blanquer manage to live a married life far from prying eyes. Between the two, it’s not just a crush. Because The Parisian announcement, Tuesday January 18, 2022, that the forties and the 57-year-old minister were married on the weekend of January 15 and 16 in front of a small number of guests. According to the daily, the only one to, for the time being, advance the information, indicates that “few people, even among their relatives, have been put in the confidence of this official union”. The main concerned, nor their entourage, have not confirmed the union. But since 2020, Anna Cabana has been the companion of Jean-Michel Blanquer, as revealed, in July of that year, here is.
Anna Cabana as a couple with Jean-Michel Blanquer
After a first marriage celebrated in 2009, Anna Cabana, 42, separated from her former companion to live a new story with Jean-Michel Blanquer, 57. While the relationship wasn’t revealed until the summer of 2020, the two had been dating since February, according to here is. If nothing has filtered on the origin of their meeting, the former rector of academy would have had “a real thunderbolt” for the ex-political journalist, according to the people magazine. To the point of also leaving his ex-wife, with whom he had three children. Since then, Anna Cabana and Jean-Michel Blanquer never appear together in public.
A trip with Jean-Michel Blanquer to Ibiza?
Monday, January 17, 2022, Mediapart revealed that Jean-Michel Blanquer had unveiled the back-to-school health protocol in an interview given to the Parisian Saturday January 1 from… Ibiza. A news that caused an outcry in the opposition and among national education personnel, in the midst of a health crisis. Nothing says if he was accompanied by his future wife or not. The minister’s entourage simply told the Parisian that he was “in Ibiza in a private setting, with longtime friends who own a house there”, from December 28 to January 2. If the presence of Anna Cabana on the Balearic island has therefore not been confirmed, she was indeed present in Paris on the weekend of January 15: it is indeed at the town hall of the fifth arrondissement of the capital that the couple said “yes”, according to here is.
Biography of Anna Cabana
Anna Cabana was born in Montpellier (Hérault) on August 6, 1979. After her studies in hypokhâgne at Henri IV, she embarked on journalism and joined the editorial staff of Marianne at 23 years old. For five years, she wrote for the magazine and then went to work at Point where she will remain ten years, to the point of becoming a great reporter. With always the same specialty: politics. His pen opens to him the doors of the Sunday newspaper where she was recruited as political editor in August 2016. A position she will hold until 2020. In parallel, she is a columnist on France Inter (2010 to 2013) and regular speaker on BFM TV (since 2013), which makes it one of its headliners with its political editorials. But when her relationship with Jean-Michel Blanquer was announced, the journalist withdrew from the news channel and left the political section of the JDD to join that of books.
In parallel with her activity as a journalist, Anna Cabana has written several books, including Cecilia in 2008, on the one who was still Cécilia Sarkozy at the time, but also Villepin: the vertical of the madman (2010), or even two works on Alain Juppé: Juppé, pride and revenge (2011) and A fantasy called Juppé (2016). She also writes Between two fires in 2012 about the relationship between François Hollande, Ségolène Royal and Valérie Trierweiler.
Before meeting Jean-Michel Blanquer, Anna Cabana, born Bitton, had been married to Yves Cabana, son of the senior official (prefect, chief of staff at the Prefecture of Paris) and former Senator and ex-Minister of Chirac Camille Cabana. After a marriage in 2009, they had a child in 2015 before separating.