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20 years of love and 20 of gap, a wedding on October 20, 2007 ... This is the story of a couple like no other who celebrated his ten years of marriage this weekend.

It was on the school benches that the couple met, except that an office separated them. Before being the wife of the former minister of economy and new president of the Republic, Brigitte Macron was his high school theater teacher.

From their age difference, the former teacher now prefers to laugh. Indeed, after suffering the wrath of their entourage, rumors, tensions and judgments of others, the Macron couple has hardened. Although still affected by the reflections, especially during the presidential campaign, Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron prefer to turn this to derision. Brigitte Macron said about her husband's candidacy for the presidency: "He must go in 2017 because after, his problem, it will be my mouth!" It was before she became first lady and she paid more attention to her words.

Unexpected meeting on the school benches

Overall, the 20-year gap has long been a problem for the couple whose families initially had a hard time accepting the situation. Except Emmanuel Macron's grandmother - very important in his life - who supported him right away. During their meeting, Emmanuel Macron is 16 years old and is in first class at Providence high school in Amiens. Brigitte, she is married and mother of three children, and does not pay attention. She will however entrust to Caroline Derrien and Candice Nedelec, authors of the book "The Macron", she was quickly seduced by his intellect. A point of view confirmed by his daughter Laurence Auzière who would have said one day when returning from school: "There is a madman in my class who knows everything about everything!"

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At first, the high school student confides in his parents about his love for his theater teacher Brigitte. They are not worried, because he is young, and imagine that it will pass him, convinced that it is not reciprocal. At first, Emmanuel Macron makes allusions to Brigitte Trogneux, but nothing happens. Only in a small town where everything is known, the story begins to make talk. But against all odds their affection is deep and the future minister and president leaves to do his final and the rest of his studies in Paris, seeing his parents relieved, persuaded that this "fad" will pass him. For its part, Brigitte Trogneux changes institutions to silence rumors.

A couple that the age difference does not reach

Everything will change in 2006, when Brigitte Trogneux divorces her first husband. Emmanuel Macron will not wait long before the marriage proposal, he who told him at 17 years old "What you do, I will marry you!" In the book "The Macron", we also learn that it is Emmanuel Macron who is at the origin of their civil union in 2007, at the Town Hall of Le Touquet, fifteen years after their meeting. Tired of mocking his couple because of their 24-year gap, he insisted on making it official, after Brigitte's stormy divorce.

In 2007 the couple unites in this context, thus reconciling the families Macron and Trogneux. A few months ago, in a report dedicated to the politician of the movement "En Marche!", We discovered the images of their wedding in Touquet, city where is the family home of Brigitte Macron, which she inherited at the death of his father.

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By this marriage assumed, the couple Macron testifies to the sincerity of his feelings, and also of his courage. They only come out of those years when they struggled to get their couple accepted, making October 20, 2007 the starting point of their new life together, filled with projects. In 2012, Emmanuel Macron entered politics and became deputy secretary general of the Élysée, then minister of the economy, industry and digital in 2014. In 2016, he founded the movement "En Marche!" before becoming President of the Republic at 39 years old. Under the fire of the media, the couple resisted that we scrutinize his actions and we talk a lot about the age difference.

If I had not made that choice, I would have missed my life

Recently, the first lady confided with humor: "The only fault of Emmanuel is to be younger.It's a joke between us, we do not live a moment in the age difference (...) So twenty years apart, which could be said, it's so nothing, of course, breakfast, me with my wrinkles, him with its freshness, but it's like that. I had not made that choice, I would have missed out on my life. "

Brigitte Macron, first lady involved

At first discreet, Brigitte Macron emerged from the shadows over the rise of her husband. From a minister's wife to a presidential candidate's wife, then president's wife , she accompanies her as often as possible, especially in her public performances where she is at the forefront.

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In April 2016, while the Minister of the Economy has just launched its political movement "On the move! Brigitte unveils herself in Une of Paris Match, a kind of media coming-out where she does not stop raving about her husband. At the time, she still speaks a lot and the makeover is being developed: the skirts become shorter, tailors are in order. For their loved ones, and now the voters, there is no doubt that their idyll, although unusual, is "a true love story". And it is to spend more time together that Brigitte gets involved in politics with her husband.

Since the couple Macron entered the Élysée, we discovered a first lady at the height, who makes sure to get involved and engage in causes while speaking only when necessary. She often says it again: she does not want to blur the message of her husband. The French elected Emmanuel Macron and not Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron: "It is very clear in my mind, the French elected Emmanuel, they did not elect me, even if they knew of course, that we formed a couple, "she said.