France has never had a first lady like this before.
Brigitte Macron will be the nation’s first premiere dame in nearly five years following her husband Emmanuel Macron’s election, stepping into the international spotlight last captivated by Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
Macron – the school teacher who took up with a student, the glamorous mother of three and grandmother to seven – is an atypical first lady, to say the least. Here’s everything you need to know about her.
1. She has chocolate in her blood
Brigitte Marie-Claude Trogneux Auzière Macron is the youngest of six children and the only girl.
Brigitte Macron will be the nation’s first premiere dame in nearly five years following her husband Emmanuel Macron’s election, stepping into the international spotlight last captivated by Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
Macron – the school teacher who took up with a student, the glamorous mother of three and grandmother to seven – is an atypical first lady, to say the least. Here’s everything you need to know about her.
1. She has chocolate in her blood
Brigitte Marie-Claude Trogneux Auzière Macron is the youngest of six children and the only girl.
- 5/9/2017
- by Peter Mikelbank
- PEOPLE.com
Paris — Their early courtship was hardly discreet: President Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni visited Disneyland Paris together, then jetted off to Jordan with cameras in tow. Weeks later, they were married.
Now, Bruni-Sarkozy is about to have a baby, and the pending birth has taken on the air of a state secret – revealing the caution within Sarkozy's political team as the unpopular president eyes a possible re-election bid.
Bruni-Sarkozy is poised to become the first first lady in modern France to give birth. Sarkozy, who has long cast himself a mold-breaker, is the first French leader to divorce – and remarry – while in office. They wed in early 2008, 3-1/2 months after he divorced the now-former Cecilia Sarkozy.
The hush-hush atmosphere over the upcoming birth says a lot about France.
France's media establishment has a reputation for cushy ties to political powers-that-be, whose personal lives have mostly been off-limits. And conventional wisdom holds that the French public,...
Now, Bruni-Sarkozy is about to have a baby, and the pending birth has taken on the air of a state secret – revealing the caution within Sarkozy's political team as the unpopular president eyes a possible re-election bid.
Bruni-Sarkozy is poised to become the first first lady in modern France to give birth. Sarkozy, who has long cast himself a mold-breaker, is the first French leader to divorce – and remarry – while in office. They wed in early 2008, 3-1/2 months after he divorced the now-former Cecilia Sarkozy.
The hush-hush atmosphere over the upcoming birth says a lot about France.
France's media establishment has a reputation for cushy ties to political powers-that-be, whose personal lives have mostly been off-limits. And conventional wisdom holds that the French public,...
- 10/11/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Robert Morgenthau, who's retiring as Manhattan Da in eight months after 35 years, has been offered work in London. The famed prosecutor, 89, told Page Six at the Tribeca Film Festival party at the Manhattan State Supreme Courthouse Tuesday night that he's been offered an associate's position with Scotland Yard's Serious Frauds Office. But he didn't seem too keen on it. His wife, Lucinda Franks, who's covering the Bernie Madoff case for the Daily Beast Web site, is urging her husband to write a memoir. "He knows so many secrets," she said. "He's like a vault." Among the other guests of Graydon Carter,...
- 4/23/2009
- NYPost.com
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