Brigitte Macron — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Wife of Emmanuel Macron, President of France since May 14, 2017.
Former teacher of literature, French, and Latin at Collège Lucie-Berger, Lycée la Providence, and Lycée Saint-Louis de Gonzague.
Played an active role in her husband's 2017 presidential campaign.
Unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the city council of Truchtersheim in 1989.
Her family owns Chocolaterie Trogneux, founded in 1872 in Amiens.

Biography

Brigitte Marie-Claude Macron (née Trogneux, later Auzière) was born on April 13, 1953, in Amiens, France. She is the youngest of six children of Simone and Jean Trogneux, who owned the five-generation Chocolaterie Trogneux, founded in 1872 in Amiens. The company is now run by her nephew, Jean-Alexandre Trogneux. She was raised in a Catholic household and attended the Lycée du Sacré-Cœur, a private Catholic school in Amiens.