Brigitte Macron’s daughter tells what it was like to live with her mother in love with a 15-year-old boy, future president of France

Brigitte Macron’s daughter paralyzed the Elysée Palace and aroused great interest among the French when he offered, in an interview with Paris Match magazine and other media, a new insight into your childhood trauma when her mother, a teacher, fell in love with the current president Emmanuel Macron, 15 years old. The banker father immediately left the family home and died in 2019, in the utmost discretion. He was buried on Christmas Eve.

In media interviews launch your first novelThe lawyer Tiphaine Auziere40 years old, explained what he experienced when I was ten years old and his mother fell in love with her student. A story set in the justice system about a woman’s suffering at the hands of violent men.

THE the youngest of three children of the French first lady with André-Louis Auzière, said this his suffering had worsened Of scandalous nature of her mother’s affair with Macron in 1994. She was 24 years younger than Brigitte and classmate of the eldest daughter, Lorenzo. They got married in 2006.

A provincial affair

Brigitte waited 10 years, until her children grew up. Macron was sent to Paris, to the Lycée Henri IV, by his doctor parents amid the scandal, convinced that he would fall in love with a girl his age. But in Amiens, a small town where Brigitte’s family runs a thriving chocolate shop, he was a scandal that struck and divided the family.

“A separation is painful. But when there is something in particular, it is even more painful. I learned a lot about human nature. I know that, in times like these, we need to focus on what is essential and move forward, despite the criticism,” Auzière told Paris Match.

Admires Macron and hates attacks

Three decades later, Auzière, a lawyer who has two children with her doctor husband, said she deeply admired the 46-year-old president, calling him a “humane, courageous and generous”. He got used to it have a dad and a stepdadwith whom he has a small age difference.

She says she is angry at the “malice” shown towards her mother, now in her 70s, in Amiens, her hometown. She complained about the way her father, a banker who died in 2019 at the age of 68, was forced to leave when the affair broke out.

“The attacks, the slander, the trials. It wasn’t the age of social media yet. But we were in a small provincial town. “Everything is known,” she said.

“I heard a lot of criticism and comments about the age difference between my mother and Emmanuel,” she told Le Figaro. “This shaped my character. I’ve learned to live with it and overcome it because the love was there”.

Divorce and pain for children

Auzière, who works in a Paris law firm and lives with his family in Le Touquet on the Channel coast, has repeatedly declared his love for both Macron and his dead father.

“For every child, Divorce is very painful. But a reconstituted family can be an opportunity,” he told Le Figaro. “There can be independent blood ties. I was lucky enough to have an amazing father and stepfather.”

He also attacked the strange conspiracy theories on social networks, after Macron’s election, they claimed that their mother was born a man.

“I worry socially when I hear what’s circulating on social media about my mother being a man,” she said. “Everyone can say that any nonsense about anyone and it takes time to eliminate it.

The first lady, her children and her brother successfully sued two women for publishing the rumors.

His novel Assizes

His daughter said she expected to come under anti-Macron criticism for her novel Assises. She calls her una “distress signal” after your experiences defend women abused and manipulated by men while working as a young lawyer in Boulogne-sur-Mer.

“I had this question inside me: why do these women, victims of violence, rarely manage to reveal their great anguish? “It is this idea of ​​the dominion that executioners exercise over their victims that has tormented me all these years,” she told La Tribune.

To his mother “He liked the book” which will be published next week, he said. Brigitte is a teacher of literature, Latin and drama.

Macron is not the president of the rich

“It hurts me that Emmanuel is presented as the president of the rich. Is not he” he said. He blamed En Marche’s leadership for its reputation for favoring the rich over the poor.

“People don’t know what they’ve done. “I think we have a problem explaining it, getting the message to the provinces because the movement is directed too much from Paris,” she said.

Locally she is known for her involvement in issues such as classroom closures, campaigning against a wind farm or fighting domestic violence.

At least four ministers visited the area to support their campaigns, Paris Match said in its eight-page article.