13 Facts About Brigitte Macron

Brigitte Macron was born Brigitte Marie-Claude Trogneux in Amiens, France.

Brigitte Macron is the youngest of six children of Simone and Jean Trogneux, the owners of the five-generation Chocolaterie Trogneux, founded in 1872 in Amiens.

Macron, at the time Brigitte Auziere, taught literature at the College Lucie-Berger in Strasbourg in the 1980s.

Brigitte Macron was in charge of the after-school theater club he attended when he was 15 alongside her own daughter Laurence who was in his class.

In 1989, Brigitte Macron unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the city council of Truchtersheim.

In 2017, Brigitte Macron played an active role in her husband's presidential campaign; a top adviser was quoted as saying that "her presence is essential for him".

Brigitte Macron proposed creating an official "first lady" title coming with their own staff, office and a personally allocated budget for their activities.

In March 2018, the office of the Elysee Palace filed a complaint for identity theft after discovering that Brigitte Macron's name was being used to obtain preferential treatment in luxury establishments through a false email address.

In October 2021, a 35-year-old man who claimed to be Brigitte Macron's nephew was sentenced to 30 months in prison, 18 of which were suspended, for identity theft, attempted fraud, and fraud as a repeat offender.

Lawyer Juan Branco argued that an employee of the Elysee Palace filed the complaint without a mandate and in the absence of Brigitte Macron's signature, leading the court to accept the nullity plea based on the provisions of the law of July 29,1881, on freedom of the press.

Brigitte Macron's image has been illegally exploited by several scammers online, who used it to sell and promote anti-wrinkle creams, falsely claiming she was the muse or creator of these products.

On 22 June 1974, Brigitte Macron married banker Andre-Louis Auziere, with whom she had three children.

In 1993, at the age of 39, she met the 15-year-old Emmanuel Brigitte Macron in La Providence High School, where she was a teacher and he was a student and a classmate of her daughter.