This Friday, December 13 will remain a key date in French political history. Emmanuel Macron officially designated François Bayrou as new Prime Ministera strategic choice to succeed Michel Barnier after the censorship of his government. If this appointment crowns a long political career, it also highlights a more intimate aspect of the centrist leader’s life: his relationship with Élisabeth Perlant, his wife of more than 50 years.
François Bayrou: this rare confidence about his wife Élisabeth
Discreet and far from the media tumult, Élisabeth is nevertheless an essential pillar for François Bayrou, who had a big point of contention with Gabriel Attal. During the broadcast Five years with broadcast in 2007 on M6, the head of MoDem confided how his wife played a key role in his personal and professional balance. “She helps me by talking to me, by thinking, and that is precious to me,” he declared. But it was another, more surprising confidence that sparked a reaction: “She likes that I am virile, that I assume my place as a man in the house.”confided the new 73-year-old Prime Minister.
François and Élisabeth Bayrou: an unwavering union
The Bayrou couple is a love story that began in the 1960s at university. François, son of Béarnais farmers, and Élisabeth, a young woman with a strong character, fall under each other’s spell. “What I remember, first of all, were her legs, straight, beautiful, finely attached. Then his face“remembered François Bayrou through the biography Bayrou the stubborn by Rodolphe Geisler. Barely five months after meeting, the two lovers married at the age of 20.
Together, they built a large family, with six children and now 21 grandchildren : Hélène Bayrou, the eldest of the family, was born in 1972, Marie Bayrou born in 1974, Dominique Bayrou born in 1976, Calixte Bayrou born in homage to the father of François Bayrou, he came into the world in 1978, Agnès Bayrou born in 1980, and finally André Bayrou, the youngest of the family, born in 1982.
Who is behind Élisabeth Bayrou?
Although she was little involved in public life, Élisabeth nonetheless remained a privileged interlocutor for her husband. Élisabeth Perlant, today Élisabeth Bayrou, is the woman who shares the life of François Bayrou, who recently spoke about the reopening of Notre Dame de Paris, since over fifty years old. Coming from a discreet background far from the spotlight, this former literature professor has always preferred to remain in the background, far from the media spotlight that accompanies her husband’s political career. Alongside her husband, the latter raises six children and enjoys a peaceful life in Pau, on their property in Bordères. Known for her outspokenness and her aversion to worldliness, she is described by her husband, with his astonishing heritage, as an essential pillar of her life, while remaining faithful to her ideal of integrity and simplicity.
