BRIGITTE MACRON

“A cougar in the Élysée” (The Times, UK), “the most unusual First Lady ever” (The Independent, UK), Emmanuel Macron's “principal adviser” (The New York Times, US), “a Jane Fonda's nice friend” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany), “the president's electoral ticket” (El Pais, Spain), one of the Chinese social medias' favourites, Brigitte Macron fascinates the whole world.

But behind her smiles, Brigitte Macron hides many pains, from the dramas of her childhood to the consequences of a love affair with her pupil. With such a path, she should be a First Lady very different from her predecessors. She tells herself the “little soldier” of her husband, but she is actually her main associate. The counsellors of Élysée had to concede – even unwillingly: Emmanuel Macron's wife is his “non-negotiable part”.

What does motive this First Lady of a new kind? Beyond the so commented age difference, her taste for Louis Vuitton dresses and her rich-and-famous friendships, the journalist Maëlle Brun unveils the woman behind the
appearances.

Over more than fifty testimonies she collected, this first biography of Brigitte Macron endeavours to outline her many sides personalities – Trogneux, Auzière, Macron – that intrigue worldwide media.

A former editor for women's magazine such as Elle, Grazia and Biba, Maëlle Brun works in weekly magazine Closer. She is also the author of a biography of George Clooney (Éditions du Moment, 2016).