Paris (AFP)

Brigitte Macron, who for the first time accepted a TV interview, gave her explanation on TF1 on Thursday of the origin of her husband's little phrase "I cross the street, from work I find you", adding with regret " a word can condemn you. "

"The day before we were at the restaurant and the restaurateur told us + The first one who will cross the street, I give him a job, because I need workers near me +. And this sentence that Emmanuel said to this at that time, it was the sentence he had heard, that the restaurateur had said the day before, "said Emmanuel Macron's wife.

She added that she reproached him for this sentence, which the head of state had launched to a young unemployed person at the Elysée during the heritage days, September 15, 2018, regularly cited by his detractors. "A sentence that did not bring me luck," admitted Emmanuel Macron Wednesday during his greetings to the press.

"I told him + you're in the precincts of the Elysée palace, it's complicated to say to a young man a sentence like that +". "Of course, we don't have to say it," repeated his wife.

"But, sometimes, we have sentences that come out spontaneously, which damage our image, but it's too late, the sentence is said. We are in an era when a word can condemn you and you are reduced to this word indefinitely ".

The head of state's wife also denied the arrogance charges against her husband. "This assurance that he has is an assurance of knowledge. But perhaps something in the form does not suit", she admitted, even if the French who meet him are, according to her , "happy".

Asked about 2022, she notably slipped: "he will do what he wants and anyway I will be there for him".

As for the anger of the hospital staff, that which has just succeeded Bernadette Chirac as president of the Hôpital de Paris-Hôpitaux de France Foundation and of the Operation Yellow Pieces, replied that "it is a fight that we understand ".

She finally castigated those who insult her on social networks on condition of anonymity: "we can murder you, in complete freedom, it's incredible", but outside the Elysée Palace "it is very rare that they approach me to be aggressive ".

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