Brigitte Macron’s “fairytale journey” from schoolteacher to first lady, and how she met the French president while she was a teacher at his school, will be told in a French television series, its creators announced.
Production company Gaumont, which made the successful detective series Lupine, said it is developing the series titled ‘Brigitte, a free woman’.
Mrs Macron, 71, met her now-husband Emmanuel while teaching at his secondary school in Amiens, northern France. The first episode will document this meeting, one writer said.
“Brigitte Macron is a fascinating character and we want to approach her in a romantic, almost melodramatic way, because of the romantic dimension of her destiny,” writer Bénédicte Charles told Le Figaro.
The Macrons, who have a 24-year age difference, married in 2007 and Emmanuel became France’s youngest president.
The images capture the moment 15-year-old Emmanuel Macron (left) kissed his teacher Brigitte Trogneux (right), 40, in 1993, two years before he declared he wanted to marry her.
Brigitte entered the Elysee Palace in 2017 as the wife of the youngest president in the history of France: she was 64 years old, Emmanuel 39.
A source close to the first lady, who did not want to be identified, said it was the first they had heard of the biopic.
“We are not associated with this project that we have learned about today from the press,” the source said.
The cast has not yet been announced, but the show will have six 45-minute episodes. It will be written by Charles and Olivier Pouponneau.
The series comes after a 2023 film titled ‘Bernadette’, starring French icon Catherine Deneuve as the wife of former president Jacques Chirac.
It tells how Bernadette Chirac carved out a place for herself in the spotlight after being sidelined following her husband’s election in 1995.
The now French president was only 15 years old when he met Madame Auziere, a teacher 24 years his senior, at the Lycée La Providence in Amiens.
Brigitte, whose eldest daughter Laurence was in the same class as Macron, was captivated by his “exceptional intelligence”.
The first sign other students had that the relationship was more than academic came during the play’s closing party at a local restaurant, with a contemporary watching as the couple shared what he described, cryptically, as a “tender moment.” .
The girl with the pudding haircut sitting on her mother’s knee is Brigitte Trogneux, and on the far left is her brother Jean-Michel.
Their romance blossomed and caused a scandal in the province. Macron’s parents then sent him to Paris to attend another school, but his desire to be with and pursue her teacher remained.
Brigitte’s daughter, Tiphaine Auzière, who is just six years younger than her stepfather, recently shed light on how she and her two older brothers really felt when Macron, 17 at the time, declared that he wanted to marry her mother, who was then 42 years old.
Speaking to Paris Match ahead of the release of her first novel, Auzière revealed how she, her sister Laurence, 47, and brother Sebastian, 49, faced judgment and “slander” when news of the scandalous romance broke. in your local community.
Brigitte Macron with her daughter Tiphaine Auziere, who spoke about her mother’s story in a recent interview on Paris Match
She told the French magazine: ‘The attacks, the slander, the trials. It was not yet the era of social media, but we were in a small provincial town. Everything is known.”
Mrs Macron, whose maiden name was Trogneux, was a teacher until 2015 and left her job when her husband entered the world of politics.
She has kept a low profile since her husband was first elected in 2017, but has made fighting bullying and cyberbullying one of her personal causes.