Brigitte Macron

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Brigitte Macron (2017)

Brigitte Marie-Claude Macron , née Trogneux , divorced Auzière (born April 13, 1953 in Amiens ), is a French teacher . As the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron , she has been " Première dame " since May 2017 .

biography

Origin, family and marriages

Brigitte Macron, called Bibi , is a daughter of Simone (nee Pujol; 1910–1998) and Jean Trogneux (1909–1994) and was born as the youngest of six children 20 years away from the eldest brother. The wealthy bourgeois family in Amiens owns a chocolate factory founded in 1872 with several branches, which among other things produces the local specialty Macarons d'Amiens . On June 22, 1974 Brigitte Trogneux married the banker André Louis Auzière, then director of the Banque Française du Commerce Extérieur . The couple first lived in Paris, later in Strasbourg and finally in Amiens . The marriage had three children, two daughters and a son.

Brigitte Auzière, who has a master's degree in philosophy , was press spokesperson for the Regional and Commerce Chamber of Pas-de-Calais for a while until, after the birth of one of her daughters, she became a teacher of French and Latin at La Providence , a Jesuit high school in Amiens. There she met the then 15-year-old student Emmanuel Macron, a classmate of her daughter Laurence, while participating in a theater group.

In 2006 Auzière was divorced and she took up a job in Paris as a teacher at the prestigious Jesuit school Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague (known primarily as Franklin in Paris ). On October 20, 2007, she married Emmanuel Macron. In 2015 Brigitte Macron stopped teaching to devote herself to her husband's political career.

Local political engagement

During her first marriage to André Louis Auzière, she lived with her family in Truchtersheim in Alsace, a municipality with 2000 inhabitants, from 1986 , and worked as a teacher in Strasbourg. There she stood as a candidate in 1989 at the municipal election under her then-married name Brigitte Auzière on the list "Truchtersheim demain". The main goal of the group was to compete against Roger Weiss, mayor of Truchtersheim for 24 years. However, the list received no mandate. A comrade of the list members in this rural area saw the reasons for the failure in the fact that their members were composed mainly of intellectuals, while Weiss had the support of the "old families", farmers and craftsmen.

Political engagement of the husband

Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron at the G7 summit 2017 in Taormina

In April 2016, Brigitte Macron's husband Emmanuel Macron founded the En Marche movement . On November 16, 2016, he announced that he would run as an independent candidate for the 2017 presidential election. Since then his wife Brigitte, meanwhile seven-time grandmother, has been in the public eye; The age difference between her and her husband, born in 1977, was often discussed.

On May 7, 2017, Macron was elected the eighth President of France; his wife Brigitte thus became the première dame . Her husband took office on May 14th.

"Première dame"

On the occasion of his inauguration, Emmanuel Macron announced that his wife would play a “public role” in the future. Your status as "première dame" will be precisely outlined. However, it is not intended that his wife will be paid from public funds.

After Macron announced that his wife would have her own office and staff in the Élysée Palace , a petition against these plans was launched on Change.org . The initiator, Thierry Paul Valette, turned against "any sexist attacks" on Brigitte Macron, whose competencies are "in no way questioned". Brigitte Macron's status as "première dame" could not be approved for reasons of cost. The budget for the “première dame” staff should be 450,000 euros; a salary for Macron's wife herself is still not provided.

Web links

Commons : Brigitte Macron  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Brigitte Trogneux. Geneanet, accessed April 15, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Annabelle Hirsch: France: The choice is made by women. In: zeit.de . February 15, 2017. Retrieved April 24, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Caroline Pigozzi: Brigitte et Emmanuel Macron prêts pour tous les défis. In: parismatch.com. April 13, 2016, accessed April 24, 2017 (French).
  4. ^ Notre société. In: trogneux.fr. Retrieved April 24, 2017 (French).
  5. ^ A b Anne Fulda: Brigitte Macron: She is a very different, new kind of president's wife . In: welt.de. May 8, 2017. Retrieved May 16, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b Sabine Verhest: Brigitte, sans laquelle il ne serait pas lui . In: La Libre Belgique . May 8, 2017, p. 13.
  7. ↑ a b Sofia Lotto Persio: Emmanuel Macron: From teacher's pet to teacher's husband to President of France? In: International Business Times UK. February 6, 2017. Retrieved April 24, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Michaela Wiegel: His teacher. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . May 9, 2017, p. 9.
  9. ↑ Harriet Agnew: Macron's wife is the power behind his campaign. In: ft.com. May 5, 2017, accessed May 16, 2017 .
  10. ^ Karine Hernandez: Les images inédites du mariage d'Emmanuel Macron et Brigitte Trogneux . In: gala.fr , May 3, 2017, accessed on May 17, 2017 (French).
  11. ^ Les images inédites du mariage de Brigitte et Emmanuel Macron. In: Vanity Fair. November 22, 2016. Retrieved May 4, 2017 .
  12. ↑ a b Brigitte Macron had attempted to be elected in 1989, unsuccessfully: the reasons for her failure unveiled. (No longer available online.) In: The Quebec Times. May 27, 2017, archived from the original on August 25, 2017 ; accessed on May 27, 2017 (English).
  13. ↑ Renaud Hartzer: Brigitte Macron a fait ses premiers pas en politique ... en Alsace. In: france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr. May 8, 2017, accessed May 16, 2017 (French).
  14. ↑ Emmanuel Macron: France's Minister of Economic Affairs founds his own movement. In: zeit.de . April 6, 2016, accessed April 24, 2017 .
  15. ^ France: Macron announces presidential candidacy. In: Spiegel Online . November 16, 2016, accessed April 24, 2017 .
  16. ↑ a b Brigitte Macron: This is the future première lady. In: Augsburger Allgemeine . May 8, 2017. Retrieved May 8, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Investiture, nomination du premier ministre, législatives… Le calendrier des prochaines semaines de Macron. In: Le Monde . May 7, 2017, accessed May 8, 2017 (French).
  18. ↑ Antoine Llorca: A l'Élysée, quel sera le rôle de Brigitte Macron, nouvelle première dame? In: lci.fr. May 14, 2017, accessed on May 16, 2017 (French).
  19. ↑ Petition with over 300,000 signatures at change.org. Retrieved July 25, 2018 (fr-fr).
  20. ↑ 160,000 French sign the petition: Special role for Brigitte Macron? Non merci! In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved August 8, 2017 .
  21. ^ France: Citizens' petition wants to prevent the status of the première lady for Brigitte Macron. In: welt.de . August 7, 2017. Retrieved August 8, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Macron, Brigitte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trogneux, Brigitte Marie-Claude (maiden name); Auzière, Brigitte (former name); Bibi (nickname); BAM (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French teacher and wife of Emmanuel Macron
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Amiens