Rumours swell of young Macron’s erotic masterpiece
A BIOGRAPHY of French first lady Brigitte Macron appears to confirm the existence of a long-rumoured erotic novel written by her husband about the early days of their romance, when she was his married teacher.
The book says the text focused on Emmanuel Macron’s relationship with the woman who was his drama teacher before becoming his wife.
Mr Macron’s youthful literary aspirations have already been well documented, but the new book, Brigitte
Macron, l’affranchie (“Brigitte Macron, Liberated”), claims it has proof of the erotic fiction. It quotes a neighbour of his family in the town of Amiens, who was a typist by profession, who says that he approached her for help.
“I knew him from the neighbourhood and one day he asked me to type up 300 pages of his novel,” she told biographer Maëlle Brun. “It was a daring novel, a little racy! The names were of course not the same but I think he had to express what he felt at the time.”
The woman, who was not named, said she did not keep a copy of the manuscript which today would spark great interest among the many who are fasci- nated by the presidential couple, who have an age gap of 24 years. He has just turned 40 and she is 64.
The Elysée declined to comment. But if true, this would not be the first time a French politician turned his hand to saucy prose. In 2009, Valéry Giscard d’estaing, the former president, published a novel modelled on himself and the late Diana, Princess of Wales. Édouard Philippe, the prime minister, co-wrote an erotic thriller, and Bruno Le Maire, the finance minister, also published a risqué novel.