Jill Biden flies 3,500 miles to join fashionable French first lady Brigitte Macron at a Louis Vuitton exhibition after watching granddaughter Naomi’s heartbreaking testimony in Hunter trial

Jill Biden arrived in France in the early hours of Saturday morning to join French first lady Brigitte Macron at the Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris, moving from the courtroom in Wilmington, Del., to the couture houses of Paris.

The two spouses will share their own visit while Joe Biden and Emmanual Macron hold a bilateral meeting.

The first lady is taking part in the state visit after a boomerang between France and Delaware, where she has sat in a Wilmington courtroom as her stepson Hunter faces federal weapons charges.

She completed the 4,000-mile flight three times in three days — also switching time zones — to balance her family needs with being First Lady.

On Friday, she sat in the front row as Naomi Biden testified on her father’s behalf. She watched as her eldest granddaughter was ambushed on the witness stand over text messages she had sent to her father.

She has been steadfast in her support of Hunter, spending four days at the courthouse this week, including her birthday on Monday.

The only thing holding her back was her official first lady duties in France.

She will set aside the courtroom on Saturday when she joins Brigitte Macron at the art museum and cultural center on the outskirts of Paris sponsored by the LVMH group, owner of Louis Vuitton. The French first lady often wears their clothes.

While they’re not “super close,” as a source close to them said, the two first ladies have a lot in common: They’re both teachers, they both love literature and words. And they both enjoy a nice glass of wine.

“They’re not super close, they’ve only met two or three times, but they always hit it off,” the source said.

They bonded in Italy over a glass of wine and then during a visit to the Planet Word Museum in Washington DC when the Macrons made a state visit in December 2022.

President Biden will spend five days in France once the visit ends Sunday, spending two days on the beaches of Normandy and the rest of his time in Paris.

Jill Biden spent Thursday with her husband in France to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy. She and Brigitte were there together when the Macrons joined the Bidens at the American cemetery to honor the D-Day veterans.

Her schedule this week has been a whirlwind.

She flew to France on Wednesday night to be with her husband (the president flew on Air Force One on Tuesday) and left after Thursday’s festivities ended so she could spend Friday in court. She boarded her flight to Paris on Friday evening and arrived early on Saturday.

She flies on a government plane.

Saturday marks the official state portion of President Biden’s visit to France. First ladies are an essential part of these visits, which are highly ceremonial and symbolic. The women are analyzed for the clothes they wear, the event they choose and how they act together.

Naomi Biden testified on behalf of her father on Friday

Brigitte Macron and Jill Biden on Thursday at the American Cemetery in Normandy to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings during World War II

Despite the language barrier – neither woman speaks the other – Jill, 73, and Brigitte, 71, have forged a bond.

“We knew immediately that we liked each other,” Biden said of Macron in December 2022 during the French couple’s state visit.

In addition to being language teachers — Biden teaches English and Macron teaches French — both women have emphasized that they have lives outside their political marriage.

“We are women, we had a life before we became first lady, and we remain what we are,” Macron said at the time as Jill Biden nodded in agreement.

And they paved the way for a bond between their spouses when the US and France had a diplomatic dispute.

In 2021, President Macron was furious when Australia decided to buy nuclear submarines from the United States, reneging on a deal with the French. Macron was blindsided by Australia’s decision to join a security treaty between the US and Britain. He recalled his ambassador from Washington DC to Paris.

The two heads of state eventually managed to resolve their differences by holding a one-on-one meeting at the G20 in Italy in October 2021.

Jill Biden had a glass of wine with Brigitte Macron in bar Il Marchese at the G20 in 2021

Jill Biden and Brigitte Macron hold hands while visiting the Planet Word Museum in Washington DC in December 2022

Jill and Brigitte did their part to restore relationships. They went for a glass of wine together at Il Marchese, a restaurant in Rome, before their husbands sat down to dinner.

The two women drank Chardonnay and ate small snacks.

Afterwards, Biden said the time we spent together was “amazing.”

“It’s nice, two friends together, like sisters,” she said.