DM – This is the moment a 15-year-old Emmanuel Macron kissed his 40-year-old teacher – two years before he declared he wanted to marry her.

Pictures show the French presidential favourite acting on stage as a teenager before leaning in to kiss Brigitte Trogneux – 25 years his senior – on the cheek after a theatrical performance in May 1993.

Miss Trogneux, now 64, was once the drama coach of centre-Left candidate Macron, now 39, who won first place in the first round of the presidential elections. They went on to marry in 2007.

Speaking of the moment they first met, the glamorous grandmother of seven who could become France’s first lady, said: ‘He [Macron] came to audition for a part in the play and I watched him. I just found him incredible. He had such presence.’

She went on: ‘Without doubt he wasn’t like the others. He was always with the teachers. He simply wasn’t an adolescent.’ …

A reporter asked her last year whether Macron is a good politician, to which she replies: ‘There’s isn’t an area I have found that he’s not good at…’

Macron and Trogneux are likely to be the next residents at the Elysee Palace with Macron becoming the youngest leader of France in modern history. …

The relationship started after Mr Macron acted in Miss Trogneux’s theatre pieces when he was aged just 18 at a private Jesuit school in Amiens, northern France.

Then Brigitte Auziere, a married mother of three, she was supervising the drama club.



Can I get a hallelujah for Brigette and Emmanuel Macron?

Here we are, finally getting back to a world of normalcy when it comes to who are world leaders marry. Throughout the ages, the most powerful men in the world got into bed every night with the most attractive women. From Genghis Khan banging Chinese empresses by the hundreds to Henry VIII beheading his wives every time someone younger and hotter came along, it was the great perk of ruling. But for centuries, it’s been all Eleanor Roosevelts and Lady Bird Johnsons. That is until recently, when the world started to right itself and we got the Carla Brunis and Melania Trumps, hot trophy wives with looks that befit men of great power.

But this is something much, much greater. If you’re going to be the leader of a great nation with a wife 25 years your senior, this is how you do it. By announcing to the world that you are so born to rule that you were turning your hot drama instructor into a Sex Scandal Teacher at the tender age of 15. Try to beat Emmanuel Macron in a negotiation over trade agreements or the EU knowing that even as a teenager, he was able to get a 40-year-old mother of three to toss her family aside like a French cigarette butt because she sensed this kid’s future greatness.

I mean, read those comments from Brigette back to yourself. As she watched this kid act she needed to sit on a stack of towels. “I watched him … incredible … such presence.” If her English wasn’t so good, I’d swear she was from Florida or Texas. Those words could be a manifesto for SSTs everywhere. And she’s not only the perfect woman to stand behind her man, she’s giving legitimacy and hope to female teachers everywhere thinking about boning their male students. And ushering in a new age of first ladies the world around.

Grade: A. Vive la France. Vive le Professeur de scandale sexuel.

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