Posted on 05/11/2017 8:27:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Emmanuel Macron is 24 years younger than his wife, and the incoming French president is exasperated that people keep talking about it.
Discussing the assumptions and rumors about his relationship his wife, Brigitte, Macron told Le Parisien newspaper this week that “if I had been 20 years older than my wife, nobody would have thought for a single second that I couldn’t be.”
It's a sentiment many French women seem to relate to. Speaking to The Washington Post's Mary Jordan ahead of the election, some suggested that the Macrons' marriage was social “revenge” for years of powerful men seeking younger wives. But it raises the question: Just how unusual is Macron's May-December romance in French politics anyway?
When he takes office, Macron will be the only leader under France's Fifth Republic to be younger than his partner; no surprise there. However, the Macrons also will have the largest age gap of any French first couple under the Fifth Republic. Charles de Gaulle and François Hollande were both close to a decade older than their partners when they entered office, but those relationships are less than half the age gap the Macrons have.
The complicated love lives of some French leaders do make this comparison a little more tricky, however. To the delight of French tabloids, both Hollande and his predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, split from their respective partners during their time in the Élysée Palace. Hollande quickly entered a relationship with actress Julia Gayet, 18 years his junior, while Sarkozy married former model Carla Bruni, 13 years younger.
Another factor is the fact that many French presidents have conducted well-known extramarital affairs. François Mitterrand's lengthy but covert relationship with art historian Anne Pingeot is now widely acknowledged and pretty much accepted —
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Yes, the 80s are far away, but close.
I think she is his beard!
He is a liberal man-boy that needs mommy to take care of him.
Wa Post would defend a leftist child molester.
Forget that, they likely already have.
She looks OLD in untouched pictures.
my gaydar is accurate for up to 500 yards. — Gay.
He is gay.
I wouldn’t call her a child molester.
He is able to make his own decisions, as he is an adult, and so can she.
I think its great that a child-abuse survivor can grow up to become President of France. Inspiring!
You’re wrong.
She slept with him at 15.
If you thought that I THOUGHT a man his age was a child, just wow! :)
I think she’s ... pretty!
I’m more concerned about him being a stooge for Soros than how old his wife is.
Whats the age of consent in France, it’s 14 right?
There’s a huge difference between an older man / younger woman union and the Macron relationship. Old guys can have kids. Old ladies cannot. There was never going to be a Barron Trump from the Macron marriage. By the time he was no longer a teen, she was menopausal.
On the other hand the Macron union had a child, namely Mr. Macron. He married his new Mommy.
And the childlessness of the Macrons makes them the part of the European leadership norm. The UK, Germany, Netherlands, France, and Italy are all headed by childless globalists. They have no skin in the game and are quite happy to drive their nations into oblivion while Muslim migrants fill up the maternity wards.
Means he’s a homo.
She’s still not guilty at her age
The fact that she went after him before he was if age is a bigger issue
He was not an adult when she went after him
Age of consent is pointless when Islam allows men to take wives at any age
In American social terms he wasn’t.
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