PARIS – Also Brigitte Macron did you want a second term? “If it was up to her, the answer is clearly no. Staying another five years at the Elysée matters little to her, it’s a place where she sees her husband less than she does ”she replies Gaël Tchakaloff who for years has been attending the Macron couple to whom he dedicated an impressionist book “Tant qu’on est tous les deux”, as long as we are the two of us, a phrase that the wife of the head of state confided to the author to explain the meaning of their relationship symbiotic, survived many crash tests, from the gossip in the small province where the story between the young student and his teacher was born, to the infernal machine of the Château.
Who is Brigitte Macron, the president’s wife
Brigitte, pygmalion and devoted wife. “They are a couple of power but she is an easygoing woman, not at all umbilical, Woodyallian – comments Tchakaloff – even if I have seen her get angry and become as aggressive as a runaway horse”. At the Elysée it plays a crucial role, but discreet and in the shadows. “She doesn’t attend meetings and she doesn’t have political duties like she could be Cecilia Sarkozy”Continues the writer who, however, remembers in the book published last year revealed the behind the scenes of her influence.
Brigitte who gives the report cards to her husband’s speeches, jokes about the choice of the next Minister of Culture, insists during the pandemic to avoid closing schools. In a backstage video of the election campaign released on Saturday, the wife of the head of state is seen deciding how she should dress before a rally. She “she looks after Him in everything, she too watches over his health. Macron is a well living, would be able to never sleep. It is she who calls him to order “.
Life as a couple. “Macron still eats it with his eyes”
Tchakaloff says the presidential couple’s story is “exceptional”. “When they are together there is an incredible magnetism, after twenty years he still eats it with his eyes”.
The first lady she will be 74 at the end of her husband’s second term. “She never talks about age, not because she is taboo, she jokes too” says the writer. “Every now and then she says ‘I’m old’ but the truth is she has the energy of a forty year old. At seven in the morning she has already done an hour on the exercise bike, and at one in the morning we still send text messages. Brigitte is Jane Fonda ”.
Brigitte Macron and the age difference with Emmanuel Macron
She was often attacked, with nasty ironies about the age difference with her husband. A few months ago she filed a complaint against a social media campaign that spread conspiracy theories about her true identity. “These bad things worry Emmanuel the most. She doesn’t care, ”observes Tchakaloff. Even when there were insinuations about Macron’s alleged homosexual relationship in 2017, he was the one who wanted to publicly deny the rumors.
“If it had been for her there would have been no need. You have great serenity about their relationship ”continues the writer. She then adds: “Brigitte is Emmanuel’s strength, but also her Achilles heel because she represents a part of irrationality”.
Brigitte, only one regret: “I’d like to go back to teaching”
The only regret that the première dame confided to her friend is that she could no longer teach, after leaving the profession when her husband launched into politics. It is not certain that anything will change in the new mandate. “You told me about the idea of creating a platform to give lessons to those with less access to education,” says Tchakaloff. “After all, Biden’s wife also continues to practice her profession as a teacher”.