Laurence Auzière-Jourdan (born 26 April 1977) is a French cardiologist and stepdaughter of French President

Emmanuel Macron Emmanuel Macron (; born 21 December 1977) is a French politician who has served as President of France since 2017. ''Ex officio'', he is also one of the two Co-Princes of Andorra. Prior to his presidency, Macron served as Minister of Econ ...

, for whom she campaigned in the

2017 French presidential election The 2017 French presidential election was held on 23 April and 7 May 2017. As no candidate won a majority in the first round, a runoff was held between the top two candidates, Emmanuel Macron of En Marche! (EM) and Marine Le Pen of the Nationa ...

Early life and education

Auzière-Jourdan was born in 1977 to André-Louis Auzière, a banker, and

Brigitte Trogneux Brigitte Marie-Claude Macron (; née Brigitte Trogneux , previously Auzière ; born 13 April 1953) is a French former educator. She is the wife and former teacher of Emmanuel Macron, who is the current President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra ...

. Her family lived in Truchtersheim, a French city near the German border, until 1991. She was a classmate of

at the

Lycée la Providence Lycée la Providence is a Private school, private Catholic school, Catholic ''lycée'', Secondary education in France#Collège, ''collège'' and technical college, located in Amiens, Hauts-de-France, in the Somme (department), Somme department of ...

in Amiens, France. She has an older brother, Sébastien, an engineer, and a younger sister, Tiphaine, a lawyer. Auzière-Jourdan graduated from

Pierre and Marie Curie University Pierre and Marie Curie University (french: link=no, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, UPMC), also known as Paris 6, was a public university, public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussi ...

(UPMC University of Paris VI).

Career

Auzière-Jourdan practices high-risk cardiology and vascular diseases in Vincennes and

Nogent-sur-Marne Nogent-sur-Marne () is a Communes of France, commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre Zero, centre of Paris. Nogent-sur-Marne is a ''Subprefectures in France, sous-préfecture'' of the Val-de-Marne ''Depar ...

. She practices with cardiologists Didier Catuli and Pierre Sablon. She has published research in cardiology, including "Facteurs échographiques associés à un niveau de BNP élevé chez les insuffisants cardiaques: interaction systole diastole. (2004)"

Political activity

During the 2017 campaign of En Marche! presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, she campaigned for him. Macron married Auzière-Jourdan's mother, Trogneux in 2007, after the two met each other when Macron was a 15-year-old student. At first, Macron's parents thought he was interested in Auzière-Jourdan, after she remarked that there was a boy in her class who "knows everything about everything" but later found out that Macron was interested in Auzière-Jourdan's mother.

Personal life

Auzière-Jourdan married Guillaume Jourdan, a radiologist practicing in Meaux. They have three children.

References

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