Throughout Emmanuel Macron’s political career, his wife, Brigitte Macron, has been considered his secret weapon. A savvy behind-the-scenes networker, she softens her yappy, gaffe-prone other half with a keener sense of what will play.
Anecdotes regarding her course-correcting her husband after bombed attempts to connect with the public are legion. The funnest example was reported to have rung out through the closed doors of Paris’s Elysée Palace after the president was captured on camera lecturing protesters of his unpopular unemployment-benefits reform to, essentially, go get a job. “Arrête tes conneries!” she exploded. (“Stop your bullshit!”)
