When he was still a teenager and already in love with his much older, married teacher, who years later became his wife and today France’s first lady, President Emmanuel Macron penned an erotic novel about the early days of their romance.
The revelation appears in the soon-to-be published biography on Brigitte Macron, titled Brigitte Macron, Liberated- (Brgitte Macron l’affranchie) due for release in France on January 17.
The rumors about the youthful literary erotic work of fiction by president Macron have been circulating in France for a while and have gained new traction thanks to the upcoming biography by the journalist Maëlle Brun of Closer magazine, who cites a source confirming that the precocious, 16-year-old Macron penned the blue novel in 1993.
“Mr. Macron’s youthful literary aspirations have already been well documented,” writes The Telegraph, “but the new book claims it has proof of the erotic fiction.”
The source is a then-neighbor of Brigitte who worked as a typist. The young writer reportedly asked her to type his manuscript.
“I knew him from the neighborhood and one day he asked me to type up 300 pages of a book he had just written,” she told Closer Magazine. ”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.”
In the article, “Emmanuel Macron wrote “a novel a little piggish”! (Emmanuel Macron a écrit “un roman un petit peu cochon”!), Closer, which is publishing exclusive extracts of the first lady’s biography, teasingly ask its readers: “Did you like Revolution, his programmatic book? Well it’s not the only book signed Emmanuel Macron.”
At the time, Emmanuel Macron had just met Brigitte, who ran the theater club at his high school, La Provicence, in Amiens. Together, they worked on rewriting the play, The Art of Comedy by Eduardo De Filippo and it was in that “effervescence créatrice” that the future president wrote his erotic novel plus some romantic poems.
The neighbor, who is not named, said that she didn’t keep a copy of the manuscript. She couldn’t know that the young Macron would eventually become the youngest president of the country.
Presumably, only President and Mrs. Macron would know if it still exists but surely it would be a bigger literary success than the upcoming biography, given the fascination among people – not only in France – with the presidential couple who have an age gap of 24 years. (He is just 40 and she, 64).
But Macron is not the first French president to delve into authoring erotic literature. Valery Giscard d’Estaing published a novel in 2009 reportedly modeled on himself and the late Diana, Princess of Wales.
“The fictional pair consummate their relationship on a train following a 1984 ceremony to mark the anniversary of the D-Day landings, and then follow on with steamy romps at French country houses and in a series of palaces,” according to the Telegraph review.
It seems, in fact, that Macron’s cabinet numbers various authors of the genre. In 2011, Prime Minister Édouard Philippe co-wrote In the shadows (Dans l’ombre), an erotic thriller, while State Secretary Marlène Schiappa used a pseudonym when she penned erotic literature. Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire wrote Le Ministre (The Minister) that features a hot scene between the minister and his wife during a trip to Venice.
