14 Facts About Brigitte Macron

Brigitte Marie-Claude Macron is a French former educator.

Brigitte Macron is the wife of Emmanuel Macron, who is the current President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra.

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 attended her literature classes, and she was in charge of the theatre class that he attended.

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.

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

In 1993, at the age of 40, 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 Laurence.

Brigitte Macron divorced Auziere in January 2006 and married Macron in October 2007.

Brigitte Macron caught COVID-19 over Christmas 2020, her office said on 9 January 2021, confirming press reports.

Brigitte Macron tested positive on 24 December 2020 but exhibited only light symptoms and tested negative six days later.

Brigitte Macron's office said that her illness was not made public at the time as it had no impact on her public agenda but she had since made a full recovery.