Macron Offers a Glimpse of a Post-Presidency Outside Politics

France’s President Emmanuel Macron addresses the students of the French School in Nicosia, Cyprus, on April 23.Photographer: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images

Emmanuel Macron has given few hints about his plan once he leaves the French presidency next year. But sitting among schoolchildren in Cyprus, he signaled it may not involve politics.

Speaking with a group of students in a garden of the French-Cypriot school in the capital Nicosia Thursday, France’s 48-year-old head of state was queried about how he became president.