this sad Christmas when she learned of the death of her ex-husband André-Louis Auzière

It has already been five years since André-Louis Auzière passed away. The man, who died on December 24, 2019, was the ex-husband of Brigitte Macron, who was left speechless when she learned the terrible news.

This is a subject on which she has never spoken publicly, but five years ago, on December 24, 2019, Brigitte Macron probably experienced the worst Christmas of her life. That day, the First Lady was, according to the account of Closer at Fort de Brégançon, when she learned of the death of her ex-husband André-Louis Auzière, who died at the Georges Pompidou hospital in Paris. “My father died, I buried him on December 24, 2019 in the strictest privacy. I adored him, he was a special being, a non-conformist who valued his anonymity more than anything. We must respect it.”explained his daughter, lawyer Tiphaine Auzière, in an interview given to Paris Match in 2020. Brigitte Macron respected this discretion by not publicly discussing the death of the father of her three children, Sébastien, Laurence and Tiphaine.

After a long fight against illness, André-Louis Auzière died at the age of 68 at the end of 2019, before being buried in Père-Lachaise. Twenty years after her marriage to Brigitte Macron in 1974, the teacher fell in love with a young man 24 years her junior. “When her husband learns the truth, his reaction is obviously violent”had confided to Closer journalist Maëlle Brun. Their divorce was finalized in 2006. Even after his death, Brigitte Macron respected her first husband's wish to remain anonymous. It was only at the beginning of October 2020 that the press revealed to the public the disappearance of the banker.

Who was André-Louis Auzière, the very discreet ex-husband of Brigitte Macron?

Before disappearing on Christmas Eve in 2019, Brigitte Macron's first husband decided to live in Paris. He made this decision once their divorce was finalized in the mid-2000s. Just before passing away, he was “always more detached, at the dawn of his 70s, more phlegmatic, with his British humor”according to Paris Match. Discreet, he had refused all interview requests received since Emmanuel Macron's first electoral campaign. According to the magazine, those who knew André-Louis Auzière will remember “a nice guy on whom everything seems to slide, a silent person, a great casino player, far from having inherited his ex-wife's joie de vivre”.

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