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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This is weird, disgusting, and just NOT "normal", by ANY standards.
Is he a gigolo or is she his beard?
MOTHER IN WIFE
It is unusual, to the point of being obsessive and almost unnatural. But, then again, I don’t know the lovebirds personally.
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.
I bet she has a bare butt photo of him on a bearskin rug....
Are you saying Emmanuel Macron was displaying himself in the guise of a girl as Brigitte's daughter? OMG!
bump for later
He went to school with one of her children.
I agree. She went after him when he was a youngster. Creepy woman.
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.)
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?
Creepier still that some are defending it
In any case, there is some possibility that just as Obama was “groomed” from an early age, so was Macron.
This is true.
Looking forward to Mr & Mrs Macron's first visit to the White House.
Macron speaks English.
Melania speaks French.
Yeah, my gaydar is strong with this guy.
what happened to all the emails that showed he was purportedly homosexual? that he had other vices?
Marcon seems to have been a protégé of Henri Hermond who was bachelor millionaire.
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I thought the same thing, she is his beard!
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