Just how unusual is Emmanuel Macron’s 24-year age gap with his wife anyway?

Washington Post ^ | 05/11/2017 | By Adam Taylor

[nopardons]

This started when he was all of 15, in the class, at school, as one of her daughters, and she was married to the father of her children.

This is weird, disgusting, and just NOT "normal", by ANY standards.

[nopardons]

He was 15 and she was his teacher ( though they have claimed that "nothing" happened back then, I don't believe them ! ), so you should call her a "child molester".

[Figment]

Is he a gigolo or is she his beard?

[GraceG]

MOTHER IN WIFE

[Pearls Before Swine]

It is unusual, to the point of being obsessive and almost unnatural. But, then again, I don’t know the lovebirds personally.

[HHFi]

The media can paper over it with euphemisms like “complicated” all they like, but we all know that if they were Americans who had the exact same relationship and history, liberals here would call her a rapist and demand she be imprisoned. They would only be the “first couple” as in “The first couple on stage on today’s episode of ‘Dr. Phil.’” And if he were a Republican with ambitions to be US President, the same liberals who are trying to find a way to normalize them would rip both of them into tiny shards.

[bigmak007]

I bet she has a bare butt photo of him on a bearskin rug....

[jonrick46]

"This started when he was all of 15, in the class, at school, as one of her daughters . . . "

Are you saying Emmanuel Macron was displaying himself in the guise of a girl as Brigitte's daughter? OMG!

[Albion Wilde]

bump for later

[nopardons]

No, sorry, the word "was" somehow went poof, didn't notice that, when I hit the "POST" button.

He went to school with one of her children.

[Jane Austen]

I agree. She went after him when he was a youngster. Creepy woman.

[cynwoody]

From the Wikipedia (boldface added):

Personal life

Macron is married to Brigitte Trogneux,^[116] 24 years his senior,^[117] who was his teacher in La Providence High School in Amiens.^[118][119] They first met when he was a 15-year-old student in her class, and she was 39, but were officially a couple only after he turned 17.^[120][121] His parents initially attempted to separate the couple by sending him away to Paris to finish the final year of his schooling, as they felt his youth made this relationship inappropriate,^[7][121] but the couple stayed together after he graduated, and they married in 2007. Macron has three stepchildren, two of whom are older than he is: Sébastien (born 1975), Laurence (born 1977), and Tiphaine (born 1984).^{[122][123][124]}

His best man was Henry Hermand (1924–2016), a businessman who loaned €550,000 to Macron for the purchase of his first apartment in Paris when he was Inspector of Finances. Hermand also let Macron use some of his offices on the Avenue des Champs Élysées in Paris for his movement En Marche!.^[125][126]

Was the teacher guilty or not guilty? (Feel free to work backwards from her current appearance.)

[Nifster]

He wasn’t what?

You are very warped in your thinking....a fifteen year old being groomed and seduced by someone nearly forty.....what do you think molestation is?

[Nifster]

Creepier still that some are defending it

[House Atreides]

The teacher was certainly not guilty when she was 39 ... and she's not guilty now.

In any case, there is some possibility that just as Obama was “groomed” from an early age, so was Macron.

[cynwoody]

There was never going to be a Barron Trump from the Macron marriage.

This is true.

Looking forward to Mr & Mrs Macron's first visit to the White House.

Macron speaks English.

Melania speaks French.

[ronniesgal]

Yeah, my gaydar is strong with this guy.

[Chickensoup]

what happened to all the emails that showed he was purportedly homosexual? that he had other vices?

[Chickensoup]

Marcon seems to have been a protégé of Henri Hermond who was bachelor millionaire.

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[seeker41]

I thought the same thing, she is his beard!