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French president-elect, Emmanuel Macron, gives first speech after historic win

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Emmanuel Macron and wife, Brigitte. PHOTO: CBC The pro-European Union centrist Emmanuel Macron has won the French presidency in a decisive victory over the far-right Front National leader, Marine Le Pen, and vowed to unite a divided and fractured France. Macron, 39, a former economy minister who ran as a “neither left nor right” independent […]

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Macron’s ex-teacher wife, 25 years his senior, may become France’s next first lady at 64

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France’s next first lady could be a grandmother of seven who is 25 years older than her husband – and taught him at school when he was only a teenager. Brigitte Trogneux, now 64, was once the drama coach of centre-Left candidate Emmanuel Emmanuel Macron and Trogneux. PHOTO: AP Macron, 39, who exit polls predicted

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