Independent candidate Emmanuel Macron is one of the favourites to win the presidential election as he is likely to face off against either Francois Fillon or Marine Le Pen, in the runoff stage of the vote.
But the 39-year-old Emmanuel Macron, who is running as an independent despite having served as minister of the economy in the socialist government between 2014 and 2016, has made headlines for reasons other than his political acumen.
His wife Brigitte was in fact his high school teacher and the story of their unusual romance has become a well-publicised story during the campaign.
Macron was 15 at the time (which is also, incidentally, the age of consent in France) and the romance with his teacher,
17 years his senior, blossomed as the two worked together on adapting an Italian play by legendary playwright Eduardo De Filippo, The Art of Comedy.
By the end of the school year of 1993-1994, the then 16-year-old Macron confessed his love. According to some accounts, his parents, who opposed the union, made him leave Amiens. According to the France 3 documentary, it was Brigitte who persuaded him to leave and start school in Paris, more or less 150km away. Before he left, the young man promised: "I will come back and I will marry you."
The two kept in touch. "We talked for hours over the phone," Brigitte recalled, describing how he won over her resistance, "with patience" she described. Brigitte divorced her husband and moved to Paris with her lover once he turned 18 and the two became an official couple.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/unusual-ro...ite-emmanuel-macron-his-wife-brigitte-1605082
:o good taste, this cougar is better than most chicks
