Brigitte Macron’s daughter describes how her mother fell for her 15-year-old pupil
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Tiphaine Auzière, Brigitte Macron's daughter, wearing an En Marche jumper a campaign meeting ahead of Emmanuel Macron's election victory
Tiphaine Auzière with her mother and Mr Macron celebrating his election to president of France
Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron were a “vision of love”, according to the French first lady’s daughter, who has described how she watched her teacher mother fall for her teenage pupil.
Tiphaine Auzière, 34, has spoken in a television documentary for the first time about the love affair between her mother and the future president of France that began in the small town of Amiens in the 1990s.
Ms Auzière, the youngest of Mrs Macron's children from her first marriage, described in the programme how everyone could see that the married teacher had fallen in love with her precocious and ambitious 15-year-old pupil.
Ms Auzière was nine years old at the time.
“They were quite smitten and it was quite obvious between them and very difficult,” she said.
Brigitte Macron: A French Novel, which cements her image as the president’s mentor and muse, was broadcast on Wednesday, a year after she moved to the Elysée when her husband was elected president.
Brigitte Trogneux First Lady of France
Born: 13 April 1953 (age 66)
Occupation:Teacher
Family:Married to French president and former minister Emmanuel Macron
Media:The French media has praised Trogneux for her “cool attitude” and “wonderwoman” look
Relationship with Macron:
Trogneux and Emmanuel
Macron met when she was his literature teacher at a private school in Amiens. They developed a close relationship and stayed in touch after Macron left, eventually marrying in 2007 and moving in together along with Trogneux’s three children
Mrs Macron, 65, declined to be interviewed but the documentary’s director, Virginie Linhart, said she had given her blessing to the 90-minute film, which provides the first insider family account of what started out as a very controversial high-school love affair.
Ms Auzière said in the documentary that the first time she ever heard of Emmanuel Macron was when her older sister Laurence came home from her Catholic school and said: “Mummy, there is a crazy boy in our class who knows everything about everything.”
Brigitte Macron was in turmoil when Emmanuel declared his love for her when he was 16 years old, according to the film, which said his parents asked her to stop seeing their son until he turned 18.
“I can’t promise you anything,” she is quoted as saying in the film.
Her then husband, André-Louis Auzière, left the family home and moved to the city of Lille when he discovered that his wife was having an affair with his daughter’s classmate.
Emmanuel was sent to finish school in Paris, but the pair maintained their relationship for the next 13 years at a distance until they married in 2007.
Brigitte Macron: A French Novel reinforces the image of the presidential couple as entirely devoted to each other.
“If I have to give a vision of love, it’s Emmanuel and mum,” said Ms Auzière. “When they are together, it is almost as if the world doesn’t exist.”
A biography of Mrs Macron published earlier this year claimed that at the time Mr Macron wrote an erotic novel based on their romance, but the novel was never published and the president has not confirmed that he authored such a book.
Brigitte Macron's daughter addresses her mother's love story with Emmanuel Macron
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Brigitte Macron's daughter has spoken publicly for the first time about the romance between her mother and the teenage Emmanuel Macron.
Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron on the steps of the Elysee Palace, May 2017
The President and First Lady in June 2017
Brigitte met the now French President when she taught drama at the high school he attended in northern France. The couple, who have an age gap of 24 years, were married in 2007, a year after she divorced banker André-Louis Auzière.
In a new documentary, Brigitte Macron: A French Novel, Brigitte's youngest daughter Tiphaine Auzière, 34, describes the time that her mother fell for the then 15-year-old.
"They were quite smitten and it was quite obvious between them and very difficult," she said, The Times reports.
Auzière was nine years old when her mother's love affair began. She first heard about the relationship when her sister, who was in the same class as Macron, came home from school saying: "Mummy, there is a crazy boy in our class who knows everything about everything."
The documentary also highlights the moment when Macron declared his love for Brigitte, when he was 16-years-old. According to the film, his parents asked Brigitte to stop seeing him until he was 18 but she replied, "I can’t promise you anything."
Addressing their continued loyalty to one another, Auzière said: "If I have to give a vision of love, it’s Emmanuel and Mummy. When they are together, it is almost as if the world doesn’t exist."
She added that the children "suffered as little as possible" when her parents divorced.
Although the First Lady was not interviewed in the film, she has spoken about her marriage to Macron in the past.
Discussing the age gap in her relationship, she told Elle France: "There are times in your life where you need to make vital choices. And for me, that was it. So, what has been said over the 20 years, it's insignificant. Of course, we have breakfast together, me and my wrinkles, him with his youth, but it's like that. If I did not make that choice, I would have missed out on my life. I had a lot of happiness with my children and, at the same time, felt I had to live 'this love' as Prevert used to say, to by fully happy."