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"I was sayg to him that he should lay the groundwork for a n [at the princy] 2022, that he should n a large cy for example," Mc explaed. "But he replied, 'you've no ia. You're talkg about yterday's world. It don't work like that now.'"</em></p><p>In sprg 2017, the French public were driven by a sire to wreak revenge on their polil class. The man of moment was Emmanuel Macron, a 39-year-old nng his first ever electn who would go on to engeer the most sensatnal victory morn history. The one-time enomy mister, vtment banker, civil servant and philosopher's assistant om the provcial cy of Amiens had been lghed at when he started his own polil party, En Marche, ls than twelve months earlier.</p><p>He was a plete unknown to the French public until Augt 2014, and even sprg 2017 had ltle stature ternatnally outsi of media and polil circl. Dependg on who you listened to, he was eher a Mozart-style geni or a shallow opportunist. His surge populary fied the ual l and had observers scramblg for an explanatn.</p><figure class="gzJMC unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" width="620" height="349" srcSet="zoom_1%2C$multiply_1%2C$rat_1.777778%2C$width_1924%2C$x_76%2C$y_200/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/154f977fce36fad872a494c415d40ee030155420, zoom_1%2C$multiply_1%2C$rat_1.777778%2C$width_1924%2C$x_76%2C$y_200/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1240%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/154f977fce36fad872a494c415d40ee030155420 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1.777778,"type":"landspe16x9","width":620,"urls":["zoom_1%2C$multiply_1%2C$rat_1.777778%2C$width_1924%2C$x_76%2C$y_200/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/154f977fce36fad872a494c415d40ee030155420"," zoom_1%2C$multiply_1%2C$rat_1.777778%2C$width_1924%2C$x_76%2C$y_200/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1240%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/154f977fce36fad872a494c415d40ee030155420 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" width="620" height="349" srcSet="zoom_1%2C$multiply_1%2C$rat_1.777778%2C$width_1924%2C$x_76%2C$y_200/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/154f977fce36fad872a494c415d40ee030155420, zoom_1%2C$multiply_1%2C$rat_1.777778%2C$width_1924%2C$x_76%2C$y_200/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1240%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/154f977fce36fad872a494c415d40ee030155420 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1.777778,"type":"landspe16x9","width":620,"urls":["zoom_1%2C$multiply_1%2C$rat_1.777778%2C$width_1924%2C$x_76%2C$y_200/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/154f977fce36fad872a494c415d40ee030155420"," zoom_1%2C$multiply_1%2C$rat_1.777778%2C$width_1924%2C$x_76%2C$y_200/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1240%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/154f977fce36fad872a494c415d40ee030155420 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" width="696" height="392" srcSet="zoom_1%2C$multiply_1%2C$rat_1.777778%2C$width_1924%2C$x_76%2C$y_200/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_696%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/154f977fce36fad872a494c415d40ee030155420, zoom_1%2C$multiply_1%2C$rat_1.777778%2C$width_1924%2C$x_76%2C$y_200/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1392%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/154f977fce36fad872a494c415d40ee030155420 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1.777778,"type":"landspe16x9","width":696,"urls":["zoom_1%2C$multiply_1%2C$rat_1.777778%2C$width_1924%2C$x_76%2C$y_200/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_696%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/154f977fce36fad872a494c415d40ee030155420"," zoom_1%2C$multiply_1%2C$rat_1.777778%2C$width_1924%2C$x_76%2C$y_200/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1392%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/154f977fce36fad872a494c415d40ee030155420 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="zoom_1%2C$multiply_1%2C$rat_1.777778%2C$width_1924%2C$x_76%2C$y_200/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/154f977fce36fad872a494c415d40ee030155420" srcSet="zoom_1%2C$multiply_1%2C$rat_1.777778%2C$width_1924%2C$x_76%2C$y_200/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/154f977fce36fad872a494c415d40ee030155420, zoom_1%2C$multiply_1%2C$rat_1.777778%2C$width_1924%2C$x_76%2C$y_200/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/154f977fce36fad872a494c415d40ee030155420 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="154f977fce36fad872a494c415d40ee030155420" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1.777778,"type":"landspe16x9","width":382,"urls":["zoom_1%2C$multiply_1%2C$rat_1.777778%2C$width_1924%2C$x_76%2C$y_200/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/154f977fce36fad872a494c415d40ee030155420"," zoom_1%2C$multiply_1%2C$rat_1.777778%2C$width_1924%2C$x_76%2C$y_200/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/154f977fce36fad872a494c415d40ee030155420 2x"]}" width="382" height="215"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>The relatnship of Brigte and Emmanuel Macron has faced much cril gaze. 'We need to battle to have accepted, to al wh the difficulti and build a life that looks nothg like anyone else's,' he says.<!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">WITT/SIPA</ce></p></figptn></figure><p>Experts like Jean Garrigu, who specialis polil history, had a theory: was the revival of a dormant phenomenon that had repeatedly fluenced French polil life. Although the untry pris self on s history of battl by the people for power, has a historic tenncy to liver self up to charmg, thorarian figur moments of crisis. It is both a weakns and ntradictn at the heart of the natnal psyche. The figur are known llectively as "provintial men".</p><p>Garrigu mented: "Each time French society fds self at a ad end or crisis has a tenncy to look for an exceptnal dividual: someone to offer a personal solutn to our llective problems."</p></div></div><asi class="_3JfHJ"></asi><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG Hqxcp" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos2-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos2-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos2-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><div class="_2J452"><div class="_33oUB"><div class="tl7wu" id="endOfArticle"><p>Famo exampl clu Napoleon Bonaparte, the brilliant ary manr who grabbed power the chaos of post-Revolutn France, but all great French lears of the past, cludg the First World War hero Ge Clemence and particularly General Charl Glle, lear of the Free French forc World War II and mandg print om 1958 to 1969, have been propelled part by the perceptn of them as reemers of lost natnal prtige.</p><p>"There's also a form of charisma, an abily to create a sort of llective enthiasm, which Bonaparte and Glle clearly had," Garrigu said. "And a Christ-like dimensn, a sort of mysticism.</p><p>"The parison wh Macron is unniable," he ntued. "We're a perd of a total breakdown nfince between the French people and their polil lears. And those moments create the ial ndns for the emergence of a provintial man."</p><h2>Demoralised and divid untry</h2><p>On May 7, 2017, Macron triumphed the send round of the printial electn, beg the untry's youngt ever print a victory that explod the tradnal parti who had n France for nearly 60 years. He hered a eply moralised and divid untry, which at least half of voters saw him as a dose of plague, rather than a provintial man of yore.</p><figure class="gzJMC unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/4bf440dbf5ff0f6962b491e8c46d5ebefe07230d, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/4bf440dbf5ff0f6962b491e8c46d5ebefe07230d 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/4bf440dbf5ff0f6962b491e8c46d5ebefe07230d"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/4bf440dbf5ff0f6962b491e8c46d5ebefe07230d 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/4bf440dbf5ff0f6962b491e8c46d5ebefe07230d, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/4bf440dbf5ff0f6962b491e8c46d5ebefe07230d 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/4bf440dbf5ff0f6962b491e8c46d5ebefe07230d"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/4bf440dbf5ff0f6962b491e8c46d5ebefe07230d 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_696/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/4bf440dbf5ff0f6962b491e8c46d5ebefe07230d, width_1392/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/4bf440dbf5ff0f6962b491e8c46d5ebefe07230d 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":696,"urls":["width_696/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/4bf440dbf5ff0f6962b491e8c46d5ebefe07230d"," width_1392/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/4bf440dbf5ff0f6962b491e8c46d5ebefe07230d 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-src="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/4bf440dbf5ff0f6962b491e8c46d5ebefe07230d" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/4bf440dbf5ff0f6962b491e8c46d5ebefe07230d, width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/4bf440dbf5ff0f6962b491e8c46d5ebefe07230d 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="4bf440dbf5ff0f6962b491e8c46d5ebefe07230d" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":382,"urls":["width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/4bf440dbf5ff0f6962b491e8c46d5ebefe07230d"," width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/4bf440dbf5ff0f6962b491e8c46d5ebefe07230d 2x"]}"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>From a young age, Macron appears to have adopted a strategy: nceal and joke.<!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">Simon Dawson/Bloomberg</ce></p></figptn></figure><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _35ekj Hqxcp _3_nxH" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos3-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos3-tablet"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>Macron had been slow to put his En Marche manifto public view. When he did, proposed a epeng of the EU and the transfer of more natnal powers to Bssels, a leap towards a Uned Stat of Europe. For France, he pched a programme that was pro-bs, pro-entreprenrship, pro-novatn, pro tax cuts on the wealthy and pani, wh lower public spendg but new protectns for the self-employed. He said wasn't about reform, but a "plete and radil transformatn. A change of software ..."</p><p>In an terview two years before he took power, Macron had been asked for his view on what the French people looked for their lears. There was always a sense of somethg missg French mocracy, he said. "This absence is the figure of the kg, whom I don't thk fundamentally the French people wanted to kill," Macron add, referrg to the guillotg of Louis XVI.</p><p>The problem for France, acrdg to Macron, was that sce Glle's parture "the normalisatn of the printial figure has created an empty seat at the heart of our polil life. Except that what people expect om the print is that he tak this posn. This is the source of our misunrstandg."</p><p>As he sat on the throne of the Republic the summer of 2017, Macron had every tentn of fillg that space, and of apg the regal style Glle had pneered that had fed France's monarchil and mocratic tradns. The new young print held his electn night victory party amid the splendour of the Louvre, home to succsive monarchs sce the early 16th century cludg Louis XVI, the last kg before the Revolutn; two months later he lled a jot meetg of parliament the Palace of Versaill.</p><figure class="gzJMC unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/0aa7e3af1263ab1aac3a32b1879013bae4ed8286, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/0aa7e3af1263ab1aac3a32b1879013bae4ed8286 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/0aa7e3af1263ab1aac3a32b1879013bae4ed8286"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/0aa7e3af1263ab1aac3a32b1879013bae4ed8286 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/0aa7e3af1263ab1aac3a32b1879013bae4ed8286, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/0aa7e3af1263ab1aac3a32b1879013bae4ed8286 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/0aa7e3af1263ab1aac3a32b1879013bae4ed8286"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/0aa7e3af1263ab1aac3a32b1879013bae4ed8286 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_696/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/0aa7e3af1263ab1aac3a32b1879013bae4ed8286, width_1392/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/0aa7e3af1263ab1aac3a32b1879013bae4ed8286 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":696,"urls":["width_696/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/0aa7e3af1263ab1aac3a32b1879013bae4ed8286"," width_1392/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/0aa7e3af1263ab1aac3a32b1879013bae4ed8286 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-src="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/0aa7e3af1263ab1aac3a32b1879013bae4ed8286" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/0aa7e3af1263ab1aac3a32b1879013bae4ed8286, width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/0aa7e3af1263ab1aac3a32b1879013bae4ed8286 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="0aa7e3af1263ab1aac3a32b1879013bae4ed8286" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":382,"urls":["width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/0aa7e3af1263ab1aac3a32b1879013bae4ed8286"," width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/0aa7e3af1263ab1aac3a32b1879013bae4ed8286 2x"]}"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>Brigte Macron is a b too brash, too direct to ever be mistaken for a product of Paris' ele social class.<!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">AP</ce></p></figptn></figure><h2>Middle-class fort</h2><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _35ekj Hqxcp _3_nxH" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos4-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos4-tablet"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>The fay home Amiens where Macron grew up is a short ten-mute drive to the south om the town hall, the wealthy area of Henriville, which prospered om the 19th-century textile tra and ped the worst of the 20th-century war damage. It's an image of gentle, provcial bourgeois France, a haven of middle-class fort.</p><p>Emmanuel's birth on December 21, 1977, was followed by two other children: a brother Lrent and a sister Estelle. Lrent was a popular boy wh a large group of iends. The brothers later lived together Paris as stunts but spe this are not thought to be close. Lrent's only public appearance support of his brother was for his guratn. He followed his parents to medice, beg a rdvascular radlogist and rearcher who currently practis a northern suburb of Paris.</p><p>In Macron's tellg, his home was a place of hard work and highbrow culture.. His father, Jean-Michel, was a profsor at the medil universy Amiens and a nrologist; his mother, Françoise, a pediatrician. Conversatns wh his parents were about lerature or philosophy, as well as "medil discsns for hours too..."</p><p>Few of Emmanuel's iends me to vis the fay home, and he spent hours readg his bedroom wh s Peter Rabb wallpaper. This hab of readg, picked up early childhood, ntu today, even though the mands of the princy have prsed his ee time.</p><figure class="gzJMC unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/0da2b2f2ff37678e402507bcb03ffa41350e981b, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/0da2b2f2ff37678e402507bcb03ffa41350e981b 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/0da2b2f2ff37678e402507bcb03ffa41350e981b"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/0da2b2f2ff37678e402507bcb03ffa41350e981b 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/0da2b2f2ff37678e402507bcb03ffa41350e981b, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/0da2b2f2ff37678e402507bcb03ffa41350e981b 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/0da2b2f2ff37678e402507bcb03ffa41350e981b"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/0da2b2f2ff37678e402507bcb03ffa41350e981b 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_696/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/0da2b2f2ff37678e402507bcb03ffa41350e981b, width_1392/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/0da2b2f2ff37678e402507bcb03ffa41350e981b 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":696,"urls":["width_696/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/0da2b2f2ff37678e402507bcb03ffa41350e981b"," width_1392/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/0da2b2f2ff37678e402507bcb03ffa41350e981b 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-src="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/0da2b2f2ff37678e402507bcb03ffa41350e981b" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/0da2b2f2ff37678e402507bcb03ffa41350e981b, width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/0da2b2f2ff37678e402507bcb03ffa41350e981b 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="0da2b2f2ff37678e402507bcb03ffa41350e981b" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":382,"urls":["width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/0da2b2f2ff37678e402507bcb03ffa41350e981b"," width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/0da2b2f2ff37678e402507bcb03ffa41350e981b 2x"]}"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>Emmanuel Macron was quick to latch on to how glossy magaz uld help him reach voters who didn't read the daily prs or watch the news channels.<!-- --> </p></figptn></figure><p>"There's not a day when I don't read a book," Macron said early 2017. He reads and re-reads, namg <em>The Red and the Black</em> by Stendhal as his favoure book. This 19th-century novel tells the tale of Julien Sorel, an amb dreamer om the French provc, and v obv parisons wh Macron's own personal story. "I adm a certa weakns for romantic hero whose liv lead them to the unknown, to danger and big open spac," he has said.</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _35ekj Hqxcp _3_nxH" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos5-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos5-tablet"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>"Lerature enlightens every suatn we fd ourselv ."</p><p>He creds the source of this passn for fictn to his mother's mother who lived a few streets away. Germae Noguès, known affectnately as Mate, was a retired headmistrs who had a profound and lastg fluence on him durg her life, wh a relatnship which went far beyond what most people experience wh elrly relativ.</p><p>The bond even ed jealoi between Macron's grandmother and his parents durg his childhood. Throughout his life, Macron has monstrated an attachment to his personal eedom and tonomy and, as a child, he appears to have selected his own guardian, emancipatg himself even om his own immediate genealogy.</p><figure class="gzJMC unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff7fee8f0d563b5d6ff44efe181411094dc5ef1, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/eff7fee8f0d563b5d6ff44efe181411094dc5ef1 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff7fee8f0d563b5d6ff44efe181411094dc5ef1"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/eff7fee8f0d563b5d6ff44efe181411094dc5ef1 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff7fee8f0d563b5d6ff44efe181411094dc5ef1, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/eff7fee8f0d563b5d6ff44efe181411094dc5ef1 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff7fee8f0d563b5d6ff44efe181411094dc5ef1"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/eff7fee8f0d563b5d6ff44efe181411094dc5ef1 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_696/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff7fee8f0d563b5d6ff44efe181411094dc5ef1, width_1392/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/eff7fee8f0d563b5d6ff44efe181411094dc5ef1 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":696,"urls":["width_696/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff7fee8f0d563b5d6ff44efe181411094dc5ef1"," width_1392/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/eff7fee8f0d563b5d6ff44efe181411094dc5ef1 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-src="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff7fee8f0d563b5d6ff44efe181411094dc5ef1" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff7fee8f0d563b5d6ff44efe181411094dc5ef1, width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/eff7fee8f0d563b5d6ff44efe181411094dc5ef1 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="eff7fee8f0d563b5d6ff44efe181411094dc5ef1" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":382,"urls":["width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff7fee8f0d563b5d6ff44efe181411094dc5ef1"," width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/eff7fee8f0d563b5d6ff44efe181411094dc5ef1 2x"]}"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>A photo of the then Brigte Trognx, an undated school photograph wh other teachers, was screened a French documentary about the Macrons.<!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">France 3</ce></p></figptn></figure><p>Macron's embrace of Mate, spe the tensn ed wh his parents, perhaps illtrat another characteristic. One of his clost school iends om Amiens, Rend Dartevelle, explaed: "I don't thk he's ever felt bted to anyone."</p><h2>Sndalo relatnship</h2><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _35ekj Hqxcp _3_nxH" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos6-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos6-tablet"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>As well as his relatnship wh Mate, Macron further fied his father by askg to be baptised at age 12. When he was 16, he aga held out agast his father's wish, to pursue a sndalo relatnship wh his teacher.</p><p><em>Brigte Auzière, a 39-year-old mother of three, one of whom was Macron's year at the lol private Catholic school, met Emmanuel when, as well as teachg Lat and French, she took over the school's drama club at which the then 15-year-old Emmanuel was somethg of a star. He already stood out at the school due to his readg, matury and high marks. Teachers fawned over him and, if other pupils were jealo, they found hard to dislike him.</em></p><p>Madame Auzière was adored and rpected equal measure, and had a form of Willy Wonka star-power as the dghter of a famed lol cholate maker. "I remember Madame Auzière as the bt teacher I ever had," says Antoe Joann, one of her former pupils Amiens. "She was someone who lifted all wh her generosy, her energy, her force."</p><p>In 1993, the school drama club performed an adaptatn of <em>La Comédie du Langage, </em>a piece by the absurdist French playwright Jean Tardi. Emmanuel played a srecrow the play. A vio of the performance broadst a French documentary shows the already handsome 15-year-old a straw hat and patchwork jacket, makg long ps for effect and liverg his l nfintly a barone voice.</p><p>"In all the plays we performed, I never saw Emmanuel terted anythg except the lead rol," mented Dartevelle. Brigte was spellbound by Emmanuel's actg skills. "I thought he was credible on the stage. What a prence!" she told a documentary broadst 2016.</p><p>For the next play, chosen by Macron, there was nsirable rewrg of the script by him and his new teacher to troduce more parts for girls. The work brought them close and they cid to direct the play together, and anised for to be staged a real theatre central Amiens.</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _35ekj Hqxcp _3_nxH" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos7-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos7-tablet"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>"There was a real unrstandg between them, a sort of symbsis," remembered Joann. "They had a relatnship that was very plic and close, somethg pletely natural."</p><figure class="gzJMC unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/da2d0acbfbdfe6490be7789b95d4a7be3c6d88, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/da2d0acbfbdfe6490be7789b95d4a7be3c6d88 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/da2d0acbfbdfe6490be7789b95d4a7be3c6d88"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/da2d0acbfbdfe6490be7789b95d4a7be3c6d88 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/da2d0acbfbdfe6490be7789b95d4a7be3c6d88, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/da2d0acbfbdfe6490be7789b95d4a7be3c6d88 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/da2d0acbfbdfe6490be7789b95d4a7be3c6d88"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/da2d0acbfbdfe6490be7789b95d4a7be3c6d88 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_696/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/da2d0acbfbdfe6490be7789b95d4a7be3c6d88, width_1392/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/da2d0acbfbdfe6490be7789b95d4a7be3c6d88 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":696,"urls":["width_696/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/da2d0acbfbdfe6490be7789b95d4a7be3c6d88"," width_1392/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/da2d0acbfbdfe6490be7789b95d4a7be3c6d88 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-src="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/da2d0acbfbdfe6490be7789b95d4a7be3c6d88" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/da2d0acbfbdfe6490be7789b95d4a7be3c6d88, width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/da2d0acbfbdfe6490be7789b95d4a7be3c6d88 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="da2d0acbfbdfe6490be7789b95d4a7be3c6d88" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":382,"urls":["width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/da2d0acbfbdfe6490be7789b95d4a7be3c6d88"," width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/da2d0acbfbdfe6490be7789b95d4a7be3c6d88 2x"]}"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>The then Brigte Trognx, the school drama teacher, ngratulat the 15-year-old Emmanuel Macron after his performance as a srecrow a 1993 productn of Jean Tardi's "La Comedie du Langage".<!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">France 3</ce></p></figptn></figure><p>Even acuntg for Emmanuel's prec talent and his highly veloped tellect, there was and should have been a gulf between them. Emmanuel was by then 16; Brigte 39. The legal age of nsent France for a stunt a relatnship wh a teacher is 18. Brigte has implied sce that she didn't see the relatnship wh Emmanuel velopg until was too late. "I didn't have the measure of him," she explaed afterwards, a documentary. "We wrote together... then ltle by ltle I was taken by his telligence. And I still haven't grasped the full pth of ."</p><p>Soundg like a mixture of a teacher, proud mother and wife, she pared her time adaptg the play wh Macron to "workg wh Mozart". But she also addrsed the biggt qutn of all, which ntu to fascate and baffle: how uld she nsir a relatnship wh a child?</p><p>"He wasn't like the others," she said. "He was always wh the teachers, always wh lots of books. He wasn't an adolcent, he had a relatnship as an equal wh adults."</p><h2>Sgle-md approach</h2><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _35ekj Hqxcp _3_nxH" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos8-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos8-tablet"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p><em>The pair were eventually bted and Macron's horrified parents sent him to Paris to fish his school tn there. Although Brigte, wh her own domtic life now crisis, enuraged him to leave, the uple did not break off their relatnship. Macron promised Brigte he would return, and that "whatever happens to you, I'll marry you". Over the next several years, he fished his schoolg, failed (twice) the entrance exams for a prtig universy, the Ele Normale Superire </em>–<em> a rare setback </em>–<em> and stead enrolled at the Paris Instute of Polil Studi </em>–<em> "Scienc Po". Wh a masters public affairs, he then peted for a place the Ele Natnale d'Admistratn </em>–<em> ENA </em>–<em> the ele trag ground for public servants. The school's graduat form a kd of ste </em>– <em>the Enarqu </em>–<em> a work of fluence spread cross ernment, fance and bs. Macron fished fifth his class, which gave him his pick of available posns the state bodi. He chose to go to the Inspectn Générale s Fanc the Mistry of Enomy. </em></p><p>Brigte has said of this time when the pair were separated, "We spoke all the time ... And ltle by ltle, he overme my ristance an credible way, and wh patience."</p><p>She, like many of the bsmen, policians and senr civil servants who would play a role Macron's rise, was sced by his matury, humour and telligence. He turn monstrated a sgle-mdns and disregard for the views of others which would also be characteristic of his rise. "It was impossible to rist him," Brigte told <em>Paris Match</em> April, 2016. The relatnship gave Macron a secure emotnal foundatn. Brigte also tght him that anythg was possible wh sufficient willpower.</p><p>The move to Paris was the start of Macron's straddlg two plac geographilly, as well as livg across two generatns through his relatnship wh Brigte. This pattern, seemg to be several plac at the same time but none of them particular, would be repeated throughout his life. It is part of what mak him such an elive, unual and slippery character who fi easy classifitn.</p><p>Later, keepg wh that, he would bee the lerary ee spir who went to public service, the philosopher at a bank when he joed Rothschild <!-- -->&<!-- --> Cie, then the banker who beme a polician when he joed the staff of print François Hollan. Fally, he would w over the French wh a proposal that was "neher of the left, nor the right".</p><figure class="gzJMC unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/1885a77b3ad947e0bc19216fed4bf80a9bda0407, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/1885a77b3ad947e0bc19216fed4bf80a9bda0407 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/1885a77b3ad947e0bc19216fed4bf80a9bda0407"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/1885a77b3ad947e0bc19216fed4bf80a9bda0407 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/1885a77b3ad947e0bc19216fed4bf80a9bda0407, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/1885a77b3ad947e0bc19216fed4bf80a9bda0407 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/1885a77b3ad947e0bc19216fed4bf80a9bda0407"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/1885a77b3ad947e0bc19216fed4bf80a9bda0407 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_696/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/1885a77b3ad947e0bc19216fed4bf80a9bda0407, width_1392/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/1885a77b3ad947e0bc19216fed4bf80a9bda0407 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":696,"urls":["width_696/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/1885a77b3ad947e0bc19216fed4bf80a9bda0407"," width_1392/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/1885a77b3ad947e0bc19216fed4bf80a9bda0407 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-src="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/1885a77b3ad947e0bc19216fed4bf80a9bda0407" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/1885a77b3ad947e0bc19216fed4bf80a9bda0407, width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/1885a77b3ad947e0bc19216fed4bf80a9bda0407 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="1885a77b3ad947e0bc19216fed4bf80a9bda0407" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":382,"urls":["width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/1885a77b3ad947e0bc19216fed4bf80a9bda0407"," width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/1885a77b3ad947e0bc19216fed4bf80a9bda0407 2x"]}"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>Sce risg to polil promence, Macron has weled chanc to meet wh stars of the showbiz world. He met Rihanna July to discs France's polici and work on global tn.<!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">Instagram/Bad Girl Riri</ce></p></figptn></figure><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _35ekj Hqxcp _3_nxH" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos9-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos9-tablet"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>While studyg at Scienc Po, the highly teemed and elrly philosopher Pl Rir, a pacifist Christian and the last survivg member of France's great pre-war generatn of thkers who had clud Jean-Pl Sartre, beme another early mentor. He phed Macron to go to polics "bee he hadn't done so himself," said Macron. Rir gave Macron accs to Parisian tellectual circl.</p><p>There are intifiable them nng through Rir's nse works – about man's abily to shape his own sty, about polics, the search for promise – that are fundamental to Macron's later approach to gag power.</p><h2>Mentors and m</h2><p>In his highly partmentalised life, Macron repeatedly ed his olr iends and acquatanc as mentors and m, while keepg his tentns and polil ambns hidn om his peers.</p><p>In his iend Marc Ferracci's explanatn, Macron believ "you go faster life by relyg on the experience of prev generatns rather than tryg to do yourself what has already been said or wrten before". This ment om a close iend hts at the ia of Macron beg a sponge, a great absorber of other people's ias, able to repeat them back sometim more nvcgly than the origator.</p><p>Scienc Po classmate Aurélian Lechevallier had many discsns at the time wh Macron about current affairs and France's problems but Macron's tert beg a polician wasn't clear. "I disvered that polics was his passn somewhat accintally," Lechevallier said, rellg a vis they had ma to the Natnal Assembly. Macron knew all the nam of the lawmakers, the heads of parliamentary groups, even arne tails about nstuenci. "He wouldn't acknowledge he had this passn, but he had already."</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _35ekj Hqxcp _3_nxH" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos10-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos10-tablet"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>From a young age, Macron appears to have adopted a strategy: nceal and joke. Only share the parts of his life that were necsary or relevant, while ployg humour and his toothy se for self-effacement. (Durg his printial mpaign early 2017, Macron told the <em>Journal Dimanche</em> newspaper, "You need to oscillate between huy and arrogance. If you fall on one of two sis, you bee eher efficient or dangero." There's somethg ld and lculatg, unmistakably Machiavellian, the statement.)</p><p>When Macron arrived the civil service his mid-twenti, at the Inspectn Générale s Fanc, he joed one of the most powerful – and feared – bodi wh France's vast and hierarchil state. As was ctomary for young spectors, he paid a urty vis to another celebry member of this ele ste, the former ENA-Inspectn graduate Ala Mc who now, at 68, has spent s workg on the edge of French bs and ernment.</p><p>"I always ask when I see the young folks 'where do you see yourself 30 years?'" Mc said, stg the lounge area of his large office on Avenue Gee V wh s impecble mid-century furnishgs and morn art. "And [Macron] answered me, 'I'll be print'."</p><figure class="gzJMC unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/2199c86f079f400802ef5946eec6517df4454c42, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/2199c86f079f400802ef5946eec6517df4454c42 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/2199c86f079f400802ef5946eec6517df4454c42"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/2199c86f079f400802ef5946eec6517df4454c42 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/2199c86f079f400802ef5946eec6517df4454c42, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/2199c86f079f400802ef5946eec6517df4454c42 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/2199c86f079f400802ef5946eec6517df4454c42"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/2199c86f079f400802ef5946eec6517df4454c42 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_696/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/2199c86f079f400802ef5946eec6517df4454c42, width_1392/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/2199c86f079f400802ef5946eec6517df4454c42 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":696,"urls":["width_696/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/2199c86f079f400802ef5946eec6517df4454c42"," width_1392/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/2199c86f079f400802ef5946eec6517df4454c42 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-src="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/2199c86f079f400802ef5946eec6517df4454c42" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/2199c86f079f400802ef5946eec6517df4454c42, width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/2199c86f079f400802ef5946eec6517df4454c42 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="2199c86f079f400802ef5946eec6517df4454c42" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":382,"urls":["width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/2199c86f079f400802ef5946eec6517df4454c42"," width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/2199c86f079f400802ef5946eec6517df4454c42 2x"]}"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>Macron repeatedly ed his olr iends and acquatanc as mentors and m, while keepg his tentns and polil ambns hidn om his peers. <!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">Michel Euler/AP</ce></p></figptn></figure><p>Mc was taken aback. And for Macron, the ment seems out of character. Had he allowed the mask to slip, or was this a liberate attempt to grab Mc's attentn, knowg his fluence and abily to open a door by placg a ll when need?</p><h2>Protégé's treachery</h2><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _35ekj Hqxcp _3_nxH" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos11-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos11-tablet"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>Like the provcial social climbers that so fascated him novels by Stendahl and Balzac, Macron had a rare skill for intifyg and wng over morn-day gatekeepers.</p><p>The socialist Print François Hollan would also bee a mentor to the brilliant young man, first drawg him onto his printial staff and then makg him enomy mister 2014 even though Macron didn't hold elected office. But this time, the father-son relatnship end wh bterns. In spe of the lnch of En Marche while Macron was still Hollan's bet – he didn't rign until four months later – the olr man realised the treachery of his protégé too late.</p><p>An observer said of Hollan: "He thought Emmanuel would do what he told him to."</p><p>Macron has always nied betrayg the Print. "What is my relatnship wh François Hollan?" he said durg mpaigng for the princy November 2016. "It's not one which I have an obligatn. We're not a fdal system." In other words, polics is jt a succsn of treachero acts the pursu of power. 'Twas ever th.</p><h2>Lovg marriage</h2><p>The public reactn to the Macrons – Brigte, divorced, had joed Macron Paris 2007 – went om "what?!" to "how?" and then "is real?".</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _35ekj Hqxcp _3_nxH" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos12-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos12-tablet"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>Dozens of terviews wh iends, fay members om both sis and associat bear wns to a lovg marriage. The Macrons' chemistry together public and their equent gtur of affectn strik everyone who has spent time wh them as genue.</p><p>Durg his mpaign speech for the princy 2016/17, Macron uld often be seen makg eye-ntact wh Brigte the crowd and she was a nstant prence around his headquarters. Nohels, some still fd this unnventnal relatnship too hard to believe , leadg to the persistent mours that Macron is gay, bisexual or even asexual.</p><figure class="gzJMC unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ea4e6cc3c1450494bf06899fc6d70541599fcb71, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/ea4e6cc3c1450494bf06899fc6d70541599fcb71 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ea4e6cc3c1450494bf06899fc6d70541599fcb71"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/ea4e6cc3c1450494bf06899fc6d70541599fcb71 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ea4e6cc3c1450494bf06899fc6d70541599fcb71, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/ea4e6cc3c1450494bf06899fc6d70541599fcb71 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ea4e6cc3c1450494bf06899fc6d70541599fcb71"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/ea4e6cc3c1450494bf06899fc6d70541599fcb71 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_696/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ea4e6cc3c1450494bf06899fc6d70541599fcb71, width_1392/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/ea4e6cc3c1450494bf06899fc6d70541599fcb71 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":696,"urls":["width_696/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ea4e6cc3c1450494bf06899fc6d70541599fcb71"," width_1392/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/ea4e6cc3c1450494bf06899fc6d70541599fcb71 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-src="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ea4e6cc3c1450494bf06899fc6d70541599fcb71" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ea4e6cc3c1450494bf06899fc6d70541599fcb71, width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/ea4e6cc3c1450494bf06899fc6d70541599fcb71 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="ea4e6cc3c1450494bf06899fc6d70541599fcb71" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":382,"urls":["width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ea4e6cc3c1450494bf06899fc6d70541599fcb71"," width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/ea4e6cc3c1450494bf06899fc6d70541599fcb71 2x"]}"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>Many people scribe beg stck by the difference age of the Macrons at first enunter, but then quickly fettg about bee of how natural and attuned the uple appear.<!-- --> </p></figptn></figure><p>"He's a b male, a b female … androgyno," ex-print Nilas Sarkozy said last year at the start of the mpaign ments signed to personally discred Macron.</p><p>Long-time iend Marc Ferracci, who was a wns at their weddg, says, "There are some thgs you n't expla. It's about someone aged 16 or 17 who falls love wh his teacher and then has the kd of character which means he follows his logic through to the very end. It's an extremely tense relatnship bee began as the g together of two mds ... It's plementary. Brigte is a b more exuberant, extroverted, whereas Emmanuel is more ntrolled. They're good foils for each other."</p><p>Others scribe beg stck by the difference age at first enunter, but then quickly fettg about bee of how natural and attuned the uple appear. Listeng to Brigte talkg about her hband, 's still possible to tch a sense of her admiratn for the star pupil he once was: "My hband, a workaholic, is a knight, someone om another pla who mix a rare telligence wh exceptnal humany. Everythg is the right place his head."</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _35ekj Hqxcp _3_nxH" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos13-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos13-tablet"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>Macron clearly se his relatnship wh his wife as a ttament to the triumph of their willpower, unr the always cur and often cril gaze of others. "We need to battle to have accepted, to al wh the difficulti and build a life that looks nothg like anyone else's," he said.</p><h2>Taboo breaker</h2><p>An acunt of a weddg the book <em>L Macron</em>, by Carole Derrien and Candice Nelec, provis an sight to the difficulti of beg a taboo breaker, particularly nventnal French society.</p><p>In 2006, the uple attend the marriage of Macron's iend Sébastien Veil: a wealthy former fellow-stunt at ENA of impecble manners and pedigree. At the receptn at a châte among the gentle hills of the Burgundy we-growg regn, Macron arrived wh Brigte on his arm: him a su, her a short whe drs and wh her tramark blon highlights. In ont of them was a crowd of young Parisians, immaculately turned out, as betiful as they were hghty. One man standg a group asked "who's this not very classy fifty-somethg on Emmanuel's arm?".</p><p>Another nfsed to the thors that she "had a slightly trashy look". As well as their age difference, Brigte is intifiably not om the same background as Macron's Paris iends and ntacts. Wh her dyed hair, love for flashy sunglass and taste for not-so-subtle signer cloth, there is still somethg un-Parisian about her even now.</p><p>Old-money Parisians and their imators value unrstated style, preferably renred muted natural ton. Brigte might be om a wealthy fay Amiens, but she's a b too brash, too direct to ever be mistaken for a product of the pal's ele social class.</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _35ekj Hqxcp _3_nxH" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos14-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos14-tablet"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><figure class="gzJMC unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5ee6ef310e65be1ff4e1dc1f96c132da9c873bc5, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/5ee6ef310e65be1ff4e1dc1f96c132da9c873bc5 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5ee6ef310e65be1ff4e1dc1f96c132da9c873bc5"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/5ee6ef310e65be1ff4e1dc1f96c132da9c873bc5 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5ee6ef310e65be1ff4e1dc1f96c132da9c873bc5, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/5ee6ef310e65be1ff4e1dc1f96c132da9c873bc5 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5ee6ef310e65be1ff4e1dc1f96c132da9c873bc5"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/5ee6ef310e65be1ff4e1dc1f96c132da9c873bc5 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_696/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5ee6ef310e65be1ff4e1dc1f96c132da9c873bc5, width_1392/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/5ee6ef310e65be1ff4e1dc1f96c132da9c873bc5 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":696,"urls":["width_696/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5ee6ef310e65be1ff4e1dc1f96c132da9c873bc5"," width_1392/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/5ee6ef310e65be1ff4e1dc1f96c132da9c873bc5 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-src="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5ee6ef310e65be1ff4e1dc1f96c132da9c873bc5" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5ee6ef310e65be1ff4e1dc1f96c132da9c873bc5, width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/5ee6ef310e65be1ff4e1dc1f96c132da9c873bc5 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="5ee6ef310e65be1ff4e1dc1f96c132da9c873bc5" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":382,"urls":["width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5ee6ef310e65be1ff4e1dc1f96c132da9c873bc5"," width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/5ee6ef310e65be1ff4e1dc1f96c132da9c873bc5 2x"]}"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>Macron's printial victory May 2017 saw him her a eply moralised and divid untry, which at least half of voters saw him as a dose of plague, rather than a provintial man of yore. <!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">Ludovic Mar/AP</ce></p></figptn></figure><p>"She don't rpect the s of high Parisian society, that's obv," said the edor of <em>Paris Match</em> magaze Olivier Royant.</p><p>The Macrons' weddg was anised the year after Veil's 2007 Le Touquet, one of the most exclive seasi rorts on the Channel ast, 50 kilometr om the port of Calais. They have a fay holiday home there.</p><h2>Worldwi attentn</h2><p><em>In the same year, 2007, Macron was plucked om obscury for a role on the Commissn to Liberate French Growth, led by enomist Jacqu Attali, an extraordary openg for him given s members who were major pany CEOs, nsultants, lawyers, bankers, thk-tankers and wrers. A year later, heedg advice to build his fortune, he moved to vtment bank Rothschild <!-- -->&<!-- --> Cie but before long he was lookg for his first break natnal polics. It me wh Hollan who employed him first on his printial mpaign team om 2010 and then as a senr staffer after his victory 2012. Hollan promoted him aga, to enomy mister, two years later. </em></p><p>Brigte had bee a mor celebry her own right sce Macron's elevatn to enomy mister. The celebry prs latched onto their unual marriage quickly, leadg to the unwanted attentn of paparazzi, some of whose first pictur appeared <em>Closer</em> magaze a month after he was named to the bet.</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _35ekj Hqxcp _3_nxH" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos15-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos15-tablet"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>"Emmanuel Macron, married to his ex-teacher!" screamed a ont-page headle over a picture of them holdg hands the street, him jeans and jacket wh an unbuttoned whe shirt. "Exclive photos: she's twenty years olr than him!" add.</p><p>The Macrons' lawyer sent a threateng letter, potg out that the pictur ged their privacy rights. Brigte ma her first official public appearance the followg summer June 2015 at the Élysée durg a state dner honour of the Spanish royals Kg Felipe VI and Queen Letizia. The photos of the Macrons walkg through the perfectly-raked gravel foreurt of the palace – her a short black drs and red and gold stilettos, him a classic dark su – attracted wi prs attentn.</p><p>Macron was quick to latch on to how the glossy magaz uld help him reach voters who didn't read the daily prs or watch the news channels. And the Macron uple were terted gettg to know some of the people who featured their pag.</p><p>Havg been brought together by their love of lerature and the theatre, the Macrons beme regulars at shows around the cy and would sometim go backstage at the end to meet the micians or actors. Their circle soon clud the prolific actor Fabrice Luchi, regnisable om many French art-hoe movi that have had ternatnal succs, who lent Macron his holiday villa on the exclive Île Ré off France's wtern ast the summer of 2016 while he was wrg his pre-electn book, <em>Révolutn</em>.</p><figure class="gzJMC unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/04a158a3f2cbb185a5afd000fd7b85ea05a11861, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/04a158a3f2cbb185a5afd000fd7b85ea05a11861 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/04a158a3f2cbb185a5afd000fd7b85ea05a11861"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/04a158a3f2cbb185a5afd000fd7b85ea05a11861 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/04a158a3f2cbb185a5afd000fd7b85ea05a11861, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/04a158a3f2cbb185a5afd000fd7b85ea05a11861 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/04a158a3f2cbb185a5afd000fd7b85ea05a11861"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/04a158a3f2cbb185a5afd000fd7b85ea05a11861 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_696/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/04a158a3f2cbb185a5afd000fd7b85ea05a11861, width_1392/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/04a158a3f2cbb185a5afd000fd7b85ea05a11861 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":696,"urls":["width_696/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/04a158a3f2cbb185a5afd000fd7b85ea05a11861"," width_1392/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/04a158a3f2cbb185a5afd000fd7b85ea05a11861 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-src="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/04a158a3f2cbb185a5afd000fd7b85ea05a11861" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/04a158a3f2cbb185a5afd000fd7b85ea05a11861, width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/04a158a3f2cbb185a5afd000fd7b85ea05a11861 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="04a158a3f2cbb185a5afd000fd7b85ea05a11861" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":382,"urls":["width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/04a158a3f2cbb185a5afd000fd7b85ea05a11861"," width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/04a158a3f2cbb185a5afd000fd7b85ea05a11861 2x"]}"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>The celebry prs latched onto the unual marriage of the Macrons, seen here on the day of his guratn Paris, leadg to the unwanted attentn of paparazzi.<!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">Patrick Kovarik/The New York Tim </ce></p></figptn></figure><p>They also got to know the veteran leathery rocker Johnny Hallyday and his wife, as well as the wrer Michel Houellebecq. The book <em>L Macron</em> reunts how they met their loyal showbiz iend Stéphane Bern, a televisn prenter and historian. Macron's r apparently nearly knocked Bern down as he was leavg a lunch at the Senate central Paris. As he lled out of the wdow to apologise, Macron regnised the host of <em>Secrets of History</em>, a popular show on the France 2 channel.</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _35ekj Hqxcp _3_nxH" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos16-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos16-tablet"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>"Ah Stéphane, my wife lov you," Macron hollered. "She talks about you all the time … she would absolutely love to have dner wh you."</p><h2>Mixg wh great and good</h2><p>The Macrons' workg clud many such bold vatns extend person, or a discreet rd sent by Brigte to suggt a date for a dner party. Brigte began to attend shows durg Paris Fashn Week and the enomy mistry was the scene of regular tered dners for the great and the good. Some guts would make their exc and leave late at night while Macron stayed up talkg. Staff were reportedly amazed that some nights would feature two stgs for dner wh different guts.</p><p>"He ed to have a lot of people over for dner, the power set Paris across all the works, and not necsarily people relevant to his work the mistry," his former bet lleague, Budget Mister Christian Eckert, remembered.</p><p>Eckert's and Macron's offic were the giant Bercy mistry buildg on the bank of the River See eastern Paris, along wh those of Fance Mister Michel Sap. "You ed to cross a lot of people his mistry and near the misterial apartment. Everyone knew about ," Eckert add.</p><p>There was an earlier time when Macron had need mentors to open up Paris high-society for him but after the Attali Commissn, his four years at Rothschild and two as an ai at the Élysée, he was now workg unr his own steam, propelled by his own reputatn.</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _35ekj Hqxcp _3_nxH" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos17-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos17-tablet"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>As another of Macron's patrons, ex-mister and senr civil servant Jean-Pierre Jouyet, had told him at the time he took the job as enomy mister: "You're the boss now."</p><p>Still aged only 37, Macron was a media darlg, a man wh fluential supporters across the bs and entertament worlds.</p><figure class="gzJMC unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/708e9094cf9aea0cc7c8067bf2f3dc55c021409c, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/708e9094cf9aea0cc7c8067bf2f3dc55c021409c 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/708e9094cf9aea0cc7c8067bf2f3dc55c021409c"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/708e9094cf9aea0cc7c8067bf2f3dc55c021409c 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/708e9094cf9aea0cc7c8067bf2f3dc55c021409c, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/708e9094cf9aea0cc7c8067bf2f3dc55c021409c 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/708e9094cf9aea0cc7c8067bf2f3dc55c021409c"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/708e9094cf9aea0cc7c8067bf2f3dc55c021409c 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_696/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/708e9094cf9aea0cc7c8067bf2f3dc55c021409c, width_1392/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/708e9094cf9aea0cc7c8067bf2f3dc55c021409c 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":696,"urls":["width_696/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/708e9094cf9aea0cc7c8067bf2f3dc55c021409c"," width_1392/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/708e9094cf9aea0cc7c8067bf2f3dc55c021409c 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-src="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/708e9094cf9aea0cc7c8067bf2f3dc55c021409c" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/708e9094cf9aea0cc7c8067bf2f3dc55c021409c, width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/708e9094cf9aea0cc7c8067bf2f3dc55c021409c 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="708e9094cf9aea0cc7c8067bf2f3dc55c021409c" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":382,"urls":["width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/708e9094cf9aea0cc7c8067bf2f3dc55c021409c"," width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/708e9094cf9aea0cc7c8067bf2f3dc55c021409c 2x"]}"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>'The French Exceptn' provis a pellg explanatn of the rapid surge populary that led Emmanuel Macron to bee Print of France, seemgly out of nowhere. Published Atralia by Allen & Unw, $29.99<!-- --> </p></figptn></figure><p>Almost exactly two years later, Macron rigned as enomy mister to pursue his polil ambns. On the day, Macron nvened his bet at the mistry, shakg each of the men by hand and exchangg kiss wh the women. Wh Brigte stg by his si, Macron said, "Brigte wanted to jo me thankg you bee she has been part of the life of the bet too."</p><p>He acknowledged was unual for a mister's wife to have such a role, "but was important for ", he said, turng to look his wife the ey.</p><p>In his rignatn speech, rried live on news channels, Macron clared that he had "seen at first hand the lims of our polil system". He need to vote himself to his own movement to "transform France".</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _35ekj Hqxcp _3_nxH" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos18-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos18-tablet"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p><em>This is an eded extract om </em>The French Exceptn <em>by Adam Plowright, In Books, published here by Allen <!-- -->&<!-- --> Unw, $29.99</em></p><figure class="gzJMC unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/a454600b4ba6089c3a09579116c0c6aac16358cd, 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