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French President Emmanuel Macron beamed with delight after he was shown just how Bristolian he really is – after discovering he was descended from a local butcher.

The President, visiting Britain for a summit with Prime Minister Theresa May at Sandhurst, discovered he was one-eighth Bristolian after he was shown the birth certificate and photograph of his great-grandfather.

He was Bristol butcher George William Robertson, who the Macron family didn’t like to talk about because he was an English Tommy who did the dirty on his young French bride after the Great War almost 100 years ago.

Last July, the Bristol Post and its sister paper the Daily Mirrorrevealed President Macron’s Bristolian roots.

That came months after the Post revealed US Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was also descended from a Bristolian – her great-great-grandfather emigrated from Bedminster to the United States in the late 1890s.

The possibility that the leaders of two of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council would be recently-descended from Bristolians was, in the end, scuppered by Donald Trump, of course.

This week, Mirror reporter Tom Parry represented Bristol when he got to meet President Macron, and presented him with his Bristolian ancestry.

He apparently had no idea about his grandmother’s father – Bristolian George was never talked about in the Macron family because he ran off back to England after fathering three children.

George was a butcher in Bristol who ended up in the trenches of the Somme during World War One. He stayed on in the northern city of Abbeville where, in 1919, he married Suzanne Leblond.

They had three daughters, and the middle one, Jacqueline was born in 1922. She went on to marry Andre Macron, and their son Jean-Michel is President Macron’s father.

But George ran out on his young French wife and returned to England while the children were still very young.

(Image: Adam Gerrard/ Daily Mirror)

He worked in Paris for a time, then went back to London, divorced his French wife and remarried a war widow called Elizabeth, where they ran a shop in London’s East End.

“This is so won­­derful. Thank you very much for doing all of this work,” President Macron told Mr Parry.

“I never knew about this so I am delighted to be able to see these documents about this man’s life.”

With PM Theresa May by his side at the Victoria and Albert Museum in West London, Mr Macron looked fascinated as he was shown George’s 1888 Bristolian birth certificate.

He was also shown the French marriage licence which shows George stayed in France after fighting on the Somme in the First World War.

But being told he was one-eighth Bristolian didn’t change President Macron’s message – that Bristol, and Britain generally, needed to sign up to all the conditions of being in the Single Market post-Brexit, to actually reap the benefits of being in the Single Market, which was a direct contradiction to the Brexiteers in the Government who had insisted the EU would cut a special deal for Britain.