School Play
Nothing like your average love story, their romance has been the subject of much fascination. When Brigitte Trogneux was around 40 years old she was working as a teacher at a Jesuit high school in her hometown of Amiens, France. She taught Emmanuel Macron in her literature classes and worked with him on the school play. Macron was 15 years old when he acted in the play that Brigitte Trogneux directed.

School Play
Sent Away
At time time, Emmanuel Macron was in class with Brigitte’s daughter, Laurence. Emmanuel Macron’s parents did not expect him to fall for Brigitte instead of Laurence or someone his age. Hearing this revelation that the two were in love, his parents took him out of that school in the north of France. Instead, they sent him to a school in Paris. When speaking with writer Anne Fulda, Emmanuel Macron’s mother, Françoise, said, “We couldn’t believe it.”

Sent Away