Brigitte Macron: her ex-husband André-Louis Auzière has died

A death as discreet as his life was: 

André-Louis Auzière, the first husband of Brigitte Macron, died last December, at the age of 68, in the greatest secrecy since the information was only made public this Thursday October 8, by his daughter Tiphaine in Paris Match. “My father is dead,” she confides in a large portrait dedicated to him this week in the magazine. I buried him last December 24 in the strictest privacy. I adored him, he was a being apart, a nonconformist who valued his anonymity more than anything. It must be respected. "

Brigitte and André-Louis Auzière met in the early 1970s, in Le Touquet, 

in the north of France, the stronghold of the family of the future first lady. Brigitte Trogneux then studies letters, André-Louis Auzière is the son of a senior civil servant, he was born in Cameroon and has just started a course in Lille in the bank. She married him in June 1974, at the age of 21, in a hurry to found a family, and became the mother of Sébastien, Laurence, then Tiphaine, the youngest, born in 1984.

"A nice guy on whom everything seems to slide"

She follows her husband to Alsace, when the latter is appointed director of the French Foreign Trade Bank. And continues to live his passion for literature by landing a first position at the Protestant college Lucie-Berger in Strasbourg, before joining the Lycée La Providence, at the Jesuits, when the couple returned to settle in Amiens. We know the rest: the meeting with the young Emmanuel Macron, who follows his theater lessons and falls in love while staging a play by Eduardo De Filippo, in 1994. The complicity is all the easier as the Macrons live less than 300 meters from the Auzière accommodation, in the upscale district of Henriville. A story that causes a real big bang in the Macron, Trogneux and Auzière families. After a slow separation, punctuated by its share of rumors and tensions, André-Louis and Brigitte end up divorcing in 2006. Paris Match describes the first husband of Ms. Macron as a man "erased, a kind on whom everything seems to slide, a silent, great casino player, far from having inherited the joy of living from his ex-wife ”.