Teachers’ Pet Macron Wants to Rewrite French Script
Emmanuel Macron rarely speaks about Amiens, where he met his wife — then his high-school drama coach. Now he’s focusing anew on his roots.
Emmanuel Macron.
Photographer: Marlene Awaad / BloombergEven in high school, the drive that propelled Emmanuel Macron to his unlikely run for the French presidency was on show.
When his drama teacher in the northern French city of Amiens told the teenage Macron that the play he wanted to stage didn’t have enough parts for their class, he suggested they rewrite it together. Every Friday for months, Macron and Brigitte Auziere worked side-by-side on reshaping “The Art of Comedy,” by the modern Italian playwright Eduardo De Filippo.