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Sex and French Elections (15 Year Old Presidential Candidate Romanced 40 Year Old Teacher)
New York Times ^ | February 2, 2017 | Pamela Druckerman

Posted on 03/21/2017 7:37:18 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

The cover of Paris Match magazine late last year featured a handsome, 30-something man strolling arm in arm with an attractive blond woman in her 60s. The same couple were on the cover of a summer issue, holding hands at the beach, and on a spring edition dressed up for a state dinner.

As France gears up for presidential elections in April (and probably a runoff in May), this unusual pair could help prevent it from becoming the next country to succumb to xenophobic populism. He’s the upstart presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, and she’s his former high school French teacher, Brigitte Trogneux, now his close adviser and wife.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: france; gilf
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And his unconventional personal story keeps him from seeming like just another ambitious énarque. Mr. Macron and his wife met when he was a 15-year-old 10th grader at a Jesuit high school in Amiens, and Ms. Trogneux was a 40-year-old married mother of three children, one of whom was in Mr. Macron’s class. Then known by her married name, Auzière, she taught French literature and ran the theater club.

So France could have a Mary Kay Letourneau as First Lady?

1 posted on 03/21/2017 7:37:18 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

” prevent it from becoming the next country to succumb to xenophobic populism.”
In other words, win the election instead of Marine Le Pen!

A NYT article, of course, in love with the non-Le Pen.


2 posted on 03/21/2017 7:44:25 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic Party's press agency now: Robert Spencer)
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To: PJ-Comix

More or less.

If you tried to read out his resume for the past 15 years....there’s nothing there to say qualification for any executive job or leadership position, that’s the odd thing about Macron. He’s an ‘empty suit’.

If you go through all of the French candidates of the past forty years, he’s got the most marginal resume of any. Then compare against UK, German, or Italian candidates...he’s still the least qualified guy ever.

He does give good speeches, but other than that...he has no proven skills for the job.


3 posted on 03/21/2017 7:45:06 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

Worked for the Community Organizer.


4 posted on 03/21/2017 7:48:03 AM PDT by garyb (What if you can't trust the voice in your head?)
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.....there’s nothing there to say qualification for any executive job or leadership position, that’s the odd thing about Macron. He’s an ‘empty suit’.

He does give good speeches, but other than that...he has no proven skills for the job.

In other words, he's the French Obama.

5 posted on 03/21/2017 7:49:20 AM PDT by rllngrk33 (Things have been getting better since January 20, 2017.)
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To: pepsionice

He’s Le Obama? No wonder the NYT loves him.


6 posted on 03/21/2017 7:49:56 AM PDT by Zarro (Oh, we don't call them the "MSM" any longer; they are now the "Basket of Detestables")
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To: pepsionice
He does give good speeches, but other than that...he has no proven skills for the job.

aka Barack Obama or Justin Trudeau.

7 posted on 03/21/2017 7:50:03 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (I WANT A TRAEGER GRILL!!!!!!!)
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To: Zarro

He’s Obama with a much older Mama.


8 posted on 03/21/2017 7:50:47 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (I WANT A TRAEGER GRILL!!!!!!!)
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To: pepsionice

So a French Obama?


9 posted on 03/21/2017 7:55:13 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: pepsionice

So another words, if only he were Black and born overseas, he’d be perfect.


10 posted on 03/21/2017 7:58:15 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: FreedomPoster

His wife referred to him as Joan of Arc. Hmmmm....


11 posted on 03/21/2017 7:58:28 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (I WANT A TRAEGER GRILL!!!!!!!)
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To: All

LOL, we each had the same reaction, post four on...


12 posted on 03/21/2017 8:00:30 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: PJ-Comix; SaveFerris; SkyPilot; Lera

He conveniently made “a lot of wealth” working as a Rothschild too.

I find it peculiar, that there are also the Wikileaks data from Assange, that says he’s actually a homosexual.

He’s an interesting EU potential leader to move them along into their fulfilled destiny IMHO.


13 posted on 03/21/2017 8:01:00 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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So... he has a grey beard?


14 posted on 03/21/2017 8:05:17 AM PDT by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Well, Gingrich married his high school math teacher and no one cared, so there’s that..


15 posted on 03/21/2017 8:06:53 AM PDT by proust (Trump / Pence 2016!)
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To: PJ-Comix

Because popular issues are XENOPHOBIC!

You are all haters if you want what’s popular.


16 posted on 03/21/2017 8:10:45 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF OBAMACARE REPEAL THAT IS WORSE THAN KEEPING IT ONE MORE DAY***)
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To: FreedomPoster

Absolutely.

The guy has held four jobs since he graduated from some gov’t academy for gifted future bureaucrats. Note, he has a degree in philosophy (very useful, you know). He went onto get a masters in public affairs.

His first real job? He was an inspector of finances (2004-2008). After that, he went to work for the Rothschild Banking empire, as an investment guy....holding several portfolios. For four years, he did that and made a ton of money. No one ever says how.

Around 2012, he goes to job three....insider position with the Hollande’s staff (age 34). Two years later, he’s appointed to a minister position. After two years there....he resigned and signed up to run for President.


17 posted on 03/21/2017 8:10:54 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: garyb

Actually, he’s never done a day of community work in his life as far as one can note.


18 posted on 03/21/2017 8:12:46 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: PJ-Comix

France: where you have this on one side and Muslim zealots on the other.

What a country (of freaks).


19 posted on 03/21/2017 8:49:01 AM PDT by Tzimisce
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Here you go PJ.


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20 posted on 03/21/2017 9:59:04 AM PDT by itsahoot (Must learn to resist the compunction to offer advice or help to complainers.)
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