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Just how unusual is Emmanuel Macron’s 24-year age gap with his wife anyway?
Washington Post ^ | 05/11/2017 | By Adam Taylor

Posted on 05/11/2017 8:27:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Emmanuel Macron is 24 years younger than his wife, and the incoming French president is exasperated that people keep talking about it.

Discussing the assumptions and rumors about his relationship his wife, Brigitte, Macron told Le Parisien newspaper this week that “if I had been 20 years older than my wife, nobody would have thought for a single second that I couldn’t be.”

It's a sentiment many French women seem to relate to. Speaking to The Washington Post's Mary Jordan ahead of the election, some suggested that the Macrons' marriage was social “revenge” for years of powerful men seeking younger wives. But it raises the question: Just how unusual is Macron's May-December romance in French politics anyway?

When he takes office, Macron will be the only leader under France's Fifth Republic to be younger than his partner; no surprise there. However, the Macrons also will have the largest age gap of any French first couple under the Fifth Republic. Charles de Gaulle and François Hollande were both close to a decade older than their partners when they entered office, but those relationships are less than half the age gap the Macrons have.

The complicated love lives of some French leaders do make this comparison a little more tricky, however. To the delight of French tabloids, both Hollande and his predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, split from their respective partners during their time in the Élysée Palace. Hollande quickly entered a relationship with actress Julia Gayet, 18 years his junior, while Sarkozy married former model Carla Bruni, 13 years younger.

Another factor is the fact that many French presidents have conducted well-known extramarital affairs. François Mitterrand's lengthy but covert relationship with art historian Anne Pingeot is now widely acknowledged and pretty much accepted —

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TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: creep; creepy; france; freak; freaky; macron; quisling
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1 posted on 05/11/2017 8:27:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes, the 80s are far away, but close.


2 posted on 05/11/2017 8:34:28 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: SeekAndFind

I think she is his beard!


3 posted on 05/11/2017 8:35:46 PM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (God did help the Republic, can we keep it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

He is a liberal man-boy that needs mommy to take care of him.


4 posted on 05/11/2017 8:36:35 PM PDT by sipow
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To: SeekAndFind

Wa Post would defend a leftist child molester.

Forget that, they likely already have.

She looks OLD in untouched pictures.


5 posted on 05/11/2017 8:37:18 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: SeekAndFind

my gaydar is accurate for up to 500 yards. — Gay.


6 posted on 05/11/2017 8:39:34 PM PDT by brucedickinson
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To: Empireoftheatom48

He is gay.


7 posted on 05/11/2017 8:40:20 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: dp0622

I wouldn’t call her a child molester.

He is able to make his own decisions, as he is an adult, and so can she.


8 posted on 05/11/2017 8:40:20 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think its great that a child-abuse survivor can grow up to become President of France. Inspiring!


9 posted on 05/11/2017 8:41:16 PM PDT by Dagnabitt
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To: FreedomStar3028

You’re wrong.

She slept with him at 15.

If you thought that I THOUGHT a man his age was a child, just wow! :)


10 posted on 05/11/2017 8:42:29 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Empireoftheatom48

I think she’s ... pretty!


11 posted on 05/11/2017 8:43:47 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m more concerned about him being a stooge for Soros than how old his wife is.


12 posted on 05/11/2017 8:43:57 PM PDT by Seruzawa (FABOL)
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To: dp0622

Whats the age of consent in France, it’s 14 right?


13 posted on 05/11/2017 8:47:38 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: SeekAndFind

There’s a huge difference between an older man / younger woman union and the Macron relationship. Old guys can have kids. Old ladies cannot. There was never going to be a Barron Trump from the Macron marriage. By the time he was no longer a teen, she was menopausal.

On the other hand the Macron union had a child, namely Mr. Macron. He married his new Mommy.

And the childlessness of the Macrons makes them the part of the European leadership norm. The UK, Germany, Netherlands, France, and Italy are all headed by childless globalists. They have no skin in the game and are quite happy to drive their nations into oblivion while Muslim migrants fill up the maternity wards.


14 posted on 05/11/2017 8:49:07 PM PDT by Dagnabitt
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To: SeekAndFind

Means he’s a homo.


15 posted on 05/11/2017 8:53:16 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: SeekAndFind

She’s still not guilty at her age


16 posted on 05/11/2017 9:02:59 PM PDT by Noob1999 (For)
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To: SeekAndFind

The fact that she went after him before he was if age is a bigger issue


17 posted on 05/11/2017 9:07:19 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: FreedomStar3028

He was not an adult when she went after him


18 posted on 05/11/2017 9:08:20 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: FreedomStar3028

Age of consent is pointless when Islam allows men to take wives at any age


19 posted on 05/11/2017 9:09:43 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster

In American social terms he wasn’t.


20 posted on 05/11/2017 9:12:28 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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