Macron and Brigitte seen closely «Accomplices on everything, symbiotic» – time.news

by time news
from Stefano Montefiori

The portrait of the presidential couple signed by a former friend of the première dame

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT
PARIS – A symbiotic couple, in which it is not clear where one ends and the other begins, which is talked about continuously at every hour of the day, lent to politics but founded forever on romanticism. So the writer Gaël Tchakaloff describes Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron in the book «As long as we are both “
, which comes out today in French bookstores for Flammarion / Versilio. “Provided we are together” is the title and meaning of the two lives: the politics and the Elysée appear as secondary elements, temporary, the terrain in which their understanding is expressed today, for the moment, which is the true priority of the couple

Tchakaloff wrote this book after dating Macron for five years, becoming
especially friend of Brigitte.
A relationship that has cracked
when the 49-year-old writer confided the project to her. «I have explained to you that my book would have talked about you two, and not just the President, because it seemed impossible to write about him without writing about you – Tchakaloff explains turning to her friend -. You didn’t take it. Your cold, definitive words have interrupted our exchange ».

The first lady it is clear: “I don’t want anyone to talk about us, for our couple to be exposed.” But for 250 pages the book tries to shed light on the love between two people who met on the high school desks, one being 24 years older than the other. A relationship that cannot fail to have consequences on the government of France, if it is true, as Tchakaloff claims, that
on any political issue the president has a more influential advisor than all the others, his wife Brigitte Trogneux.

Says his friend Gaspard Gantzer: “One evening I see this woman arriving who looks less than her years but is clearly older than Emmanuel, and what is incredible is that they act like teenagers, they make out all the time, they hold hands».

Gantzer is a classmate at Ena (the elite school that Macron has just closed, ed), and was then the communications manager of President François Hollande when Macron was Minister of Economy. “She offers him unconditional love that sustains him, gives him boundless confidence in himself“. Ganzter also tells of how Macron announced to then President Hollande that he would leave the government to run for presidential election: with a text message, the day after he entered his office without saying anything to him. “Emmanuel is not bad at all, he genuinely loves people. But when it comes to business things, it can be ruthless. ‘

Valerie Trierweiler, who entered the Elysée as Hollande’s companion before discovering the betrayal with Julie Gayet, he is enthusiastic about the book and an “indestructible complicity that makes the strength of this uncommon couple”. The writer Gaël Tchakaloff also collected the testimony of Macron’s mother

, Françoise Noguès. There are only a few months left until the election of spring 2022, and the president in office seems to confirm himself as anything but a professional politician. «Emmanuel will sooner or later launch into writing – says his mother -, I think he will change direction. He’s not the type to hold political conferences around the world. At 27 he didn’t know what he was going to do in life, and today (at 43, ed) I think it’s the same ».

August 24, 2021 (change August 24, 2021 | 22:24)

You may also like

Leave a Comment