Brigitte Macron’s ‘fairytale journey’ from school teacher to France’s First Lady to be told in TV drama series

Brigitte Macron’s “fairytale journey” from teacher to first lady – and how she met the French president while she was a teacher at his school – will be told in a French TV series, its makers have announced.

Production company Gaumont, which made the hit detective series Lupine, said it is developing the series ‘Brigitte, A Free Woman’.

Mrs Macron, 71, first met her now husband Emmanuel when she was teaching at his secondary school in Amiens, northern France. The first episode will document this meeting, a writer has said.

“Brigitte Macron is a fascinating character, and we want to tackle it in a romantic, almost melodramatic way because of the romantic dimension of her fate,” writer Bénédicte Charles told Le Figaro.

The Macrons – who have a 24-year age difference – married in 2007, with Emmanuel becoming France’s youngest president.

Brigitte entered the Elysee Palace in 2017 as the wife of the youngest president in French history – she was 64, Emmanuel was 39

A source close to the first lady, who did not want to be named, said this was the first they had heard of the biopic.

“We are not involved in this project that we heard about in the press today,” the source said.

The cast has not yet been announced, but the show will consist of six 45-minute episodes. It is written by Madame Charles and Olivier Pouponneau.

The series follows a 2023 film titled “Bernadette,” starring French icon Catherine Deneuve as the wife of former president Jacques Chirac.

It tells how Bernadette Chirac found herself in the spotlight after being sidelined following her husband’s election in 1995.

The now French president was only 15 years old when he met Madame Auziere, a teacher 24 years his senior, at Lycee La Providence in Amiens.

Brigitte, whose eldest daughter Laurence was in the same class as Macron, was fascinated by his “exceptional intelligence”.

The first sign other students got that the relationship was more than academic came during the play’s closing party at a local restaurant, with a contemporary watching as the pair shared what he described, cryptically, as a “tender moment.”

The little girl with a pudding bowl hairstyle sitting on her mother’s knee is Brigitte Trogneux, and on the far left is her brother Jean-Michel

Their romance blossomed and caused a scandal in the province. Macron’s parents then sent him to Paris to attend another school, but his desire to be with his teacher and pursue her persisted.

Brigitte’s daughter Tiphaine Auzière, who is just six years younger than her stepfather, recently revealed how she and her two older siblings really felt when Macron, then 17, declared that he wanted to marry their mother, who was 42 at the time .

Speaking to Paris Match ahead of the release of her first novel, Auzière revealed how she and sister Laurence, 47, and brother Sebastian, 49, faced judgment and ‘backbiting’ when news of the scandalous romance broke in their local community became known.

Brigitte Macron with her daughter Tiphaine Auziere, who spoke out about her mother’s history in a recent interview with Paris Match

She told the French magazine: ‘The attacks, the gossip, the judgments. It wasn’t yet the age of social networking, but we were in a small provincial town. Everything is known.’

Mrs Macron, whose maiden name was Trogneux, was a teacher until 2015 and left her job when her husband entered the world of politics.

She has kept a low profile since her husband was first elected in 2017, but has made the fight against school bullying and cyberbullying one of her personal goals.