Emmanuel Macron
Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron is a French politician. He is the president of France and ex officio co-prince of Andorra since 14 May 2017. Born in Amiens, Macron studied philosophy at Paris Nanterre University. He has two children, Laurent and Estell, born of whom he has a daughter, Estelle.
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Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron is a French politician. He is the president of France and ex officio co-prince of Andorra since 14 May 2017. Born in Amiens, Macron studied philosophy at Paris Nanterre University, later completing a master’s degree in public affairs at Sciences Po. He worked as a senior civil servant at the Inspectorate General of Finances and later became an investment banker at Rothschild & Co. Macron was appointed a deputy secretary general by President François Hollande shortly after his election in May 2012. He was later appointed to the Cabinet as Minister of the Economy, Industry and Digital Affairs in August 2014 by Prime Minister Manuel Valls. He resigned from the Cabinet in August 2016, launching a campaign for the 2017 presidential election. Though initially behind in opinion polls, Macron topped the ballot in the first round of voting, and was elected President of France on 7 May 2017 with 66. 1% of the vote in the second round, defeating Marine Le Pen. At the age of 39, Macron became the youngest president in French history. Macron’s maternal grandparents are from the Pyrenean town of Bagnères-de-Bigorre, Gascony. The Macron family legacy is traced back to the village of Authie in Hauts- de-France. Macron associates his enjoyment of reading and his left-ward political leanings to his grandmother Germaine, who, after coming from a modest upbringing of a stationmaster father and a housekeeping mother, became a teacher then a principal, and died in 2013.
Although raised in a non-religious family, Macron was baptized a Roman Catholic by his own request at age 12; he is agnostic today. His parents sent him off to Paris due to their alarm at the bond he had formed with Brigitte Auzière, a married teacher with three children at Jésuites de la Providence, who later became his wife. In Paris, he failed to gain entry to the École normale supérieure twice, instead studying philosophy at the University of Paris-Ouest Nanterrre La Défense, obtaining a DEA degree. Around 1999 Macron worked as an editorial assistant to Paul Ricur, the philosopher who was then writing his last major work, La Mémoire, l’Histoire l’Oublié. He became a member of the editorial board of the literary magazine Esprit Esprit. Macron did not perform national service because he was pursuing his graduate studies. After graduating from ENA in 2004, he became an Inspector in ONA générale before training in an office in Nigeria. He has two siblings, Laurent, born in 1979 and Estelle, born on 1982. The couple divorced in 2010. Macron has two children, Laurent and Estell, born of whom he has a daughter, Estelle. Macron is the son of Françoise Macron, a physician, and Jean- Michel Macron, professor of neurology at theUniversity of Picardy.
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