Brigitte Trogneux: From Macron's teacher to France's first lady

Story highlights

• Macron was a student in a school play when he met Trogneux
• President-elect has said his wife will have a role in government

(CNN)The relationship between French President-Elect Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Trogneux has captivated the world.
There is nothing cliche about their story, which began when a 15-year-old Macron took part in a school play directed by Trogneux, 24 years his senior.
Trogneux went from being Macron's teacher to his partner, and eventually his wife. But through each phase, she has been his mentor and inspiration.
"Without her, I wouldn't be me," Macron, 39, declared after winning the first round of voting in April.
Macron kisses his wife after winning the first round in April.
Trogneaux -- now 64 with seven grandchildren -- will become France's next first lady. Unlike in the United States, the spouses of French leaders have traditionally held more negligible roles in public affairs.
But there is nothing traditional about Trogneaux, nor her presidential muse. Macron has said that if he is elected, he will likely give his wife an official role in his administration.
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'Love took everything in its path'
Trogneux was born to a bourgeoisie family of chocolatiers, the youngest of six children. Like Macron, her hometown is Amiens in northern France.
Before she met Macron, she was on the path to living a relatively conventional life. She had a stable career teaching French literature, Latin and drama, and married a banker, Andre Louis Auziere, with whom she had three children.
"Love took everything in its path and led me to divorce. It was impossible to resist him," Trogneux told Paris Match magazine in 2016.
She divorced Auziere in 2006 and married Macron a year later, moving to Paris to work as a teacher.
Before she met Macron, Trogneux was on the path to a relatively conventional life.

In 2015 she gave up her career to focus on her husband, who was at the time the country's economy minister.
In a documentary by France3 TV, Trogneux is depicted as Macron's coach. In one scene, she guides him through a practice run of a speech, cutting in to tell him to lift his voice.
"Every night we debrief together and we repeat what we have heard about each other," she told Paris Match.
"I have to pay attention to everything, do the maximum to protect him."
Her adult children, Sebastien, Laurence and Tiphaine, are reported to have a good relationship with their stepfather and have been seen campaigning for Macron in T-shirts bearing En Marche!, the name of Macron's party.
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Trogneux (C) with her daughters Tiphaine Auziere (R) and Laurence Auziere-Jourdan at a campaign meeting in Paris.

By Angela Dewan, CNN Updated 2116 GMT (0516 HKT) May 7, 2017
Brigitte Trogneux: From Macron's teacher to France's first lady
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