Gaumont Announces Development Of Six-Part Bio-Series On French First Lady Brigitte Macron

Melanie Goodfellow
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French film and TV company Gaumont has announced it is developing a six-part drama devoted to French President Emmanuel Macron’s wife Brigitte Macron.

The Paris-based company said the film would consist of six 45-minute episodes and be entitled Brigitte, une femme libre, which translates as “Brigitte, a free woman” but is not confirmed as the international title.

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“Written by Bénédicte Charles and Olivier Pouponneau, this series retraces the romantic trajectory of the first lady, Brigitte Macron,” Gaumont said in a succinct press release on Tuesday.

Charles and Pouponneau previously collaborated on the Abu Dhabi-set spy thriller Mirage and serial killer mini-series Spiral of Lies.

Gaumont did not reveal any further information on the storyline, cast or other producing partners.

Brigitte Macron’s unconventional life and early romance with her husband Macron has long been a source of fascination in France and beyond.

She met her future husband when he a precocious 15-year-old high school student and she was a 39-year-old, married mother of three and teacher at his school.

The pair grew close over their mutual love of drama and a school production of Italian playwright Eduardo de Filippo’s The Art Of Comedy.

When Macron’s parents discovered the budding relationship, they sent him to Paris to complete his studies, but he vowed that he would one day marry Brigitte.

They eventually married in 2007, a year-and-a-half after Brigitte Macron’s divorce from her first husband.

She continued to teach for a time before getting behind Macron’s budding political career and then taking on the role of first lady.

Gaumont’s announcement comes hot on the heels of the successful launch of recent bio-series Becoming Karl Lagerfeld, which it produced as an original series for Disney+.

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