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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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To: Empireoftheatom48
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.

21 posted on 05/11/2017 9:14:40 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: FreedomStar3028
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".
22 posted on 05/11/2017 9:17:22 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: SeekAndFind

Is he a gigolo or is she his beard?


23 posted on 05/11/2017 9:23:53 PM PDT by Figment
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To: Figment

MOTHER IN WIFE


24 posted on 05/11/2017 9:49:22 PM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, that it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: SeekAndFind

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


25 posted on 05/11/2017 10:38:30 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


26 posted on 05/11/2017 10:54:40 PM PDT by HHFi
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To: Pearls Before Swine

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


27 posted on 05/11/2017 11:04:27 PM PDT by bigmak007 (They who can't control their own passions, want to passionately control others.)
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To: nopardons
"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!

28 posted on 05/11/2017 11:14:23 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental illness: A totalitarian psyche.)
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To: SeekAndFind

bump for later


29 posted on 05/11/2017 11:18:18 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
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To: jonrick46
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.

30 posted on 05/11/2017 11:44:32 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Nifster

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


31 posted on 05/12/2017 12:41:02 AM PDT by Jane Austen (Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
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To: SeekAndFind
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.)

32 posted on 05/12/2017 1:24:35 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: FreedomStar3028

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?


33 posted on 05/12/2017 1:33:38 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Jane Austen

Creepier still that some are defending it


34 posted on 05/12/2017 1:35:06 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: cynwoody
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.

35 posted on 05/12/2017 1:36:54 AM PDT by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison)
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To: Dagnabitt
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.

36 posted on 05/12/2017 1:58:36 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Empireoftheatom48

Yeah, my gaydar is strong with this guy.


37 posted on 05/12/2017 4:14:14 AM PDT by ronniesgal (still winning (and a self satisfied Pr!ck, according to WMarshal))
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To: Empireoftheatom48

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


38 posted on 05/12/2017 4:30:32 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: cynwoody

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

I


39 posted on 05/12/2017 4:35:01 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: Empireoftheatom48

I thought the same thing, she is his beard!


40 posted on 05/12/2017 4:43:36 AM PDT by seeker41 (Free the USA-eliminate globalist causes and return to the constitution)
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