It is rather rare in the media. This Friday on France Info, Brigitte Macron spoke of her life "under the gaze of others". The wife of the President of the Republic admits to being "extremely careful", because "everything you say can fall on the Head of State".
She denies any political influence, she who however is close to several government ministers. The Elysée Palace, she explains, describing its role, is sometimes a last resort for those who call for help. "As a wife, the first letters I received were exclusively health problems," she says. “This is almost the last door we knock on and there is an emergency. I said to myself, I have a duty, for the five years that I have been here, to be useful ”.
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- franceinfo (@franceinfo) July 10, 2020Brigitte Macron chairs the Paris Hospitals Foundation - Hospitals of France. She put it at the service of patients and residents of nursing homes during the health crisis, for example to provide tablets to confined seniors.
Eye surgery and "little diplomatic concern"
The former teacher also emphasizes having to watch out for the slightest odd, especially abroad, citing as an example the commemoration of the June 18 Appeal in London: “At the last moment, I had to have my eyes operated, i 'I had to tell Princess Camilla, otherwise there was a little diplomatic concern,' she explains.
As for the violence on social networks, of which the Macron are sometimes the target, she does not understand it. "Why does the other become, as Sartre said, the drain hole in my sink?" "Lies and fantasies sometimes come to the fore and it's crazy how hard they are. It gets stronger than the truth. ”
"People think we have powers," she laments, "between us, our life as a couple is simple" even if it is "certainly not like the others". “We are not constantly in the salons, served by people. We are when we receive, but otherwise we know how to preserve ourselves. It would have been untenable for me otherwise ”.
“The future with Emmanuel is not worrying. He is a solid man, extremely reassuring and extremely kind, ”she concludes.
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