• Welcome
• Introduction
• A huge political affair
• The research
  and the persons behind it
• The Algeria connection
• Jean-Michel in the army
• The 1977 interview with “Véronique”
• Brigitte the teacher
• The pictures
• The facial recognition
• Brigitte Macron as a woman
• The pedophiles around the Macrons
• Other noteworthy facts
• The court cases
• Update tracker

In contrast to Hollywood scripts, real life does not limit itself to only a few characters, but has relations spread out to dozens, as we all experience in our lives. This fact makes biographies generally quite complex, as our lives are influenced by and deal with many different relationships, which change and multiply over time.
The central claims of the Brigittegate scandal deal with the following persons:

The Trogneux Family

[As is to be expected, the name is thoroughly slaughtered when US podcasters and commentators talk about these people, but it’s to be pronounced like “tronyuh”, with a French r and the uh being sort of a prudish and long version of the u in ‘curse’.]
A known bourgeois family of Amiens (northern France), openly lying about their “6 generations of chocolatiers”, while in reality the vaunted ancestors, as well as Jean Trogneux himself, were pastry chefs. The present-day chain of chocolate shops called Jean Trogneux was only started after WWII, when in 1949 Jean Trogneux bought La Maison des Baptèmes (“the House of Baptisms), a confiseur specialised in ‘dragées’  (sugar-coated almonds or almond-shaped chocolate cream, traditionally given to friends and relatives at the occasion of newborns/baptisms), and more importantly, when in 1963, he took over the buildings and equipment of La Maison Magniez-Baussart, a confectioner since 1859. Both of the enterprises had suffered great damage during the bombings of Amiens in WWII.
There are questions about whether the Trogneux bakery would not have sustained damage as well, and if not, why so.
Candace Owens received tips that also point to the possibility that Brigitte may not be related to the pastry chefs, but that she in fact is related to another Trogneux family who came from Germany to Amiens after the war. It is at this moment not possible to say much about these speculations, as none of it is confirmed.
In the official story, Brigitte’s parental family is said to have the following members:

• Jean Trogneux, father

• Simone Pujol, mother

• Anne-Marie (“Annie”) Boulogne-Trogneux, oldest sister, born in 1932

• Jean-Claude Trogneux, oldest brother, born in 1933, whose grandson Jean-Baptiste is presently (2025) the head of the Jean Trogneux chocolate business, and who remarried with a woman called Brigitte, which creates confusion, because through her marriage she became one more “Brigitte Trogneux”, 9 years older than her sister-in-law of the same name

• Maryvonne Farcy-Trogneux, second sister, born in 1937, who died in a car accident at 23, leaving behind a 5-month old baby

• Monique Gueudet-Trogneux, third sister, born in 1941

• Jean-Michel Trogneux, now Brigitte Macron, born in 1945, the one sibling that the Brigitte Macron biographical pieces never mentioned, and who was not listed on the “Trogneux Family” wikipedia page (it’s remarkable this family had its own page, which is now deleted) nor genealogy sites, which suddenly started adding in this extra child after the Brigittegate theory became public: until his name is mentioned in Sylvie Bommel’s second book, published in 2019, it was as if he simply didn’t exist

• Brigitte Auzière-Trogneux, born in 1953, present state or whereabouts unknown, as Jean-Michel/Brigitte Macron has taken on her identity; her past is kept under wraps as if it were a state secret: all requests for school pictures have been simply refused, even though they should be publicly available according to the law, and the facebook page in this name has been deleted
  
  

André Auzière

Born in 1951, in Cameroon (then a French colony): alleged husband of Brigitte Trogneux, visible in the marriage picture.
Everything we know about this person is weird, making speculations that he is a fictitious character not as insane as it may sound.
Because of the later released pictures, we have to assume, for now, that the person present in these pictures is probably André Auzière, the father of the Auzière children.
There are next to no online traces of his life, allegedly as a bank manager. There is hardly anything to be found anywhere, even in paper documents, and what was originally reported of him included many errors, going as far as to have pictures of random people shown when documentaries about Brigitte Macron discuss her “first husband”.
When the weirdness around André Auzière’s untraceable past became mainstream knowledge, it was suddenly “revealed” that, actually… he was dead! He supposedly died in 2019. Nobody knew this until his youngest daughter, Tiphaine, made the fact of his death public in an interview in 2020. Strangely enough, she gave the wrong date, and reported the day she “buried him” as the day of his passing – while he was also not even buried, but cremated in Paris. Which was weird in itself, as André Auzière’s parents have a family tomb in Cannes, where his brother was already buried alongside the parents. Logically, André’s body should have been added to this tomb.
Tiphaine also mentioned that she “would have really wanted her children to have known her father”, which is weird, because her children were 4 and 6 years old at the alleged death of André Auzière.
And that’s not the end of the weirdness. The obituary memento (an ordinary b/w A4 page) had a large picture of this man on the beach… in nothing but swimming shorts! Jean-Louis Auzière (see below) claimed all other pictures of this supposed bank manager were destroyed, apparently giving no reason why on earth this would have happened. However, at the end of June 2024, Laurence and Tiphaine released two new pictures of themselves as young kids with their father André (the one with Tiphaine is shown here on the left), but once more their mother is conspicuously absent.
An article in the loyal mainstream press claimed that before his death, André Auzière was locked away in a psychiatric institution and guarded by a system put in place by Alexandre Benalla, Macron’s former deputy chief-of-staff with an extremely problematic past.
According to Emmanuelle Anizon, Jean-Louis Auzière (see below) told her that he had heard from André’s lady-friend that she had found proof in Andre’s belongings that he was on the brink of leaving the country and going back to Africa, where he was born. It is very doubtful that we can trust Jean-Louis Auzière, because he also said that he himself was born in 1942, and André one year earlier, in 1941, ten whole years before André’s actual birth!
Fun fact: they are claimed to both have been born on February 28th.
The (originally) almost complete, unreal absence of normal traces of his existence is very alarming, and the consequent mystery surrounding him gives credibility to the conclusions of Natacha Rey and Pressibus that he simply is a fictitious person who never really existed. Until 2022, the only picture available online claiming to be André Auzière, was a picture of one of Brigitte Macron’s former colleagues…
It is not even clear which name he used during his life: most people write about him as “André-Louis Auzière”, while apparently his first name was only André and Louis his middle name. Emmanuelle Anizon reports that his former colleagues called him “Dédé”. To make the confusion even worse, many newspapers reported originally on André Auzière as “Jean-Louis Auzière”, claiming this was Brigitte Macron’s former husband.
Xavier Poussard was able to find a few traces of an André Auzière’s professional career in banking, but they contradict the bank names and periods claimed by Brigitte and Tiphaine.
Pressibus traced back the career of André’s father, Louis Auzière, who was a colonial officer and very probably in the secret service. This past (particularly the Algeria connection) could provide a link between the Auzières and the Trogneuxs, as the other three Trogneux daughters as well as Jean-Claude were all married to children of very successful business owners of Amiens.
A very remarkable part of his elusive life is his claimed promotion that pushed the young family to move from Amiens to Truchtersheim in 1985 or 1986 or 1987 – once again, dates differ, and it seems that it’s impossible in the 21st century to precisely trace events that took place not even 50 years earlier. Note how these people’s lives seem to be ruled by the hitherto unknown phenomenon of ‘time-fluidity’, where it’s impossible to have facts take place at a fixed moment in time: they happened ‘sometime’, but it’s apparently impossible to say exactly when. Like being born ten years earlier or later, or moving to a different place while at the same time still living at the old place. It surely happens to all of us, doesn’t it?
However, the move to Truchtersheim (a small village about 20 kms outside of Strasbourg, in the north-eastern French region of the Alsace) is clearly said to have been because of André’s promotion, but nobody can find any proof of this! Still the official claim is that because of this transfer, the Auzières moved to a staff residence of the bank (which one?) in Truchtersheim, a far distance and cry from their bourgeois life in the city of Amiens. Absurdly, there is a total lack of evidence that André Auzière actually lived there with Brigitte and the kids. We’re told that it was exactly for his work that they moved, but at the same time they say that he was hardly ever home, only for the weekends, because… he was always ‘gone for his work’! Make it make sense.

The Auzière children

Sébastien Auzière, born in 1975, Laurence Jourdan-Auzière, born in 1977, and Tiphaine Auzière, born in 1984: the notorious children claimed to have been birthed by Brigitte Macron.
While Sébastien and Laurence are not so much in the picture, it seems to have been Tiphaine’s task to defend Brigitte Macron and her story, even though she isn’t doing a great job at it. She has two children with her former partner Antoine Choteau, and made headlines in 2024 with her (fake?) relationship with Cyril Hanouna, a famous French TV talkshow host.

Jean-Louis Auzière

Born in 1943: an uncle of André Auzière, but since he was a surprise baby born 26 years after his older brother Louis (father of André Auzière), he is in fact of the generation of his nephew André.
He is an important source of information in this affair, but at the same time a very suspicious one, as his statements have been shown to be seriously unreliable, and his family’s colonial/secret service past hints at a shady background.
His middle name is André, and it is claimed he used that name more than his first name, creating possible confusion with his nephew André whose middle name is Louis.
He obviously looks a lot like André Auzière, albeit in a much more voluminous version.
Very remarkably, several newspapers and magazines reported Jean-Louis Auzière to be Brigitte Macron’s former husband.
Natacha Rey will therefore conclude that André Louis Auzière and Jean-Louis André Auzière are one and the same, aided by the absence of about any proof of André’s existence. She therefore also assumed that Jean-Louis’ wife, Catherine Auzière-Audoy, born in 1944, would be the biological mother of the three children Brigitte Macron claims to have. As Catherine is Jean-Louis’ second wife and they only married in 2003, it was accepted by the court in Lisieux (where Jean-Louis presently works as a legal adviser)that she could not possibly be the biological mother of the Auzière children.
Jean-Louis was first married to Susan Spray, in 1966, with whom he has two children.
Catherine for her part sows confusion by posting her artwork on facebook, including children’s portraits that seem to be the alleged children of Brigitte Macron and their children. Catherine seems to confirm this, by commenting that one of children is “family, but not related to me”, indicating the girl is a relative of her husband. Her posted works also express two very distinct styles (both, albeit a bit differently, signed only with “Auzière), that suggest such different levels of technical expertise that there is speculation whether she’s posting two different person’s artwork.

Véronique de la Simone-Dreux

Formerly Véronique Trogneux-Dreux, born in 1952: the former wife of Jean-Michel Trogneux, and mother of his two children. They were married in 1980, in Blangy-Tronville, a village a bit outside Amiens, where the ‘company’ that Jean-Michel was supposedly the manager of was established. The wedding took place “in the strictest privacy”, and was only extremely summarily announced in newspapers, and without any picture. Somehow this was not the big event to celebrate Jean-Michel marrying the love of his life, or a fruitful alliance between the Trogneux family and a child of a rich entrepreneur Rotary friend of Jean Trogneux, as were the other Trogneux marriages. This was the second marriage for Véronique. Again, it didn’t last long: they divorced in 1987, and Véronique remarried a third time.
After the marriage, the Trogneux couple apparently moved to Beauvais, where, a few months into her marriage, Véronique starts a franchise of the La Maison des Baptèmes brand(which was of course run by the Trogneux family) in Beauvais, called Tentations. This outlet of the Jean Trogneux company was fully financed by Jean-Michel’s parents, and seems to have been quite successful, as they even opened a second shop in the same city. The shops were closed when Jean-Michel and Véronique divorced in 1987.
Like with all things related to Jean-Michel, nothing of this part of the Trogneux family or their business’s history is ever mentioned in the official mythology around Brigitte Macron or the Jean Trogneux brand.
Xavier Poussard has had a phone conversation with Véronique Dreux, in which she ended up volunteering the information that “Brigitte told me not to get involved”, which is quite strange if Jean-Michel Trogneux exists and is her former husband. Why would not he, but his sister give orders to his former wife? She also said that she knew Emmanuel Macron’s father but not Emmanuel himself early on. This of course is weird, because why would she have any connection to Macron’s father but not himself. Officially, Brigitte was Véronique’s sister-in-law, who started a relationship with Emmanuel when he was 14 years old, which was after Jean-Michel and Véronique divorced. Logically, Véronique might then have heard about this relationship and known about Emmanuel, but why would she know who his father was? Xavier reports that when she spoke about this, there was a voice in the background who interfered, and Véronique asked Xavier’s name and then broke off the call. Noteworthy is that Emmanuel Macron’s mother has admitted that she knew Brigitte since long before her romance with Emmanuel started, and that she is her best friend (see below). If Brigitte Macron is Jean-Michel, then of course Véronique must also have met the Macron parents during her marriage to Jean-Michel.
Véronique also mentions that after the short marriage, she went back to Amiens to live with her mother, while in reality, the property in Amiens where she was registered as living after the divorce, belonged to the Trogneux family.
Xavier Poussard also points out that there are two official documents that mention her marriage to Alain l’Eleu de la Simone as her first marriage, which is simply false: it is her third.

The children of Jean-Michel Trogneux

Jean-Jacques Trogneux, born in 1982, and Valérie Limpens-Trogneux, born in 1984: the two children of Jean-Michel Trogneux and Véronique Dreux.
In the picture on the left side, one can see that Jean-Jacques looks a lot like Emmanuel Macron, which is weird as they officially have only an in-law relationship, and certainly not a blood relationship.
Xavier Poussard knew a man who was a close friend of Jean-Jacques Trogneux in their student days, and who had been his room-mate. When Xavier called him to ask about Jean-Jacques’ father, this person first replied that he actually had never heard anybody talk about Jean-Jacques’ dad, as if it was a taboo subject. Very shortly after this phone call, Xavier was called back by this person to strongly and fully deny what he said before, and that, in fact, Jean-Jacques’ dad had been a totally normal subject of conversation, and that he was a ‘short fat guy’ (“un petit gros”, a fitting description for the person later indicated by the Elysée to be Jean-Michel Trogneux – see next entry). Interestingly, in the same breath, the person also confirmed a “fact” that was discovered to be a lie (see the Other Noteworthy Facts page).

Le Petit Gros

A yet unidentified “short fatty guy” who is since 2021 unofficially claimed to be Jean-Michel Trogneux, but is now in the legal case against Candace Owens also “officially” designated as the brother of Brigitte Macron.
The ‘reveal’ of this person as Jean-Michel Trogneux was made public in the “debunking dossier” published in January 2022 by Jonathan Moadab and Paul-Eric Blanrue, two French sceptics who claim to fact-check and debunk ‘conspiracy theories’. Note that it was not the Elysée who presented this person as being Jean-Michel Trogneux.
He is present in the videos of both of Emmanuel Macron’s inaugurations (2017 and 2022), although not with the Trogneux family members, but in a totally different ‘box’ with commercial people. He seems very uncomfortable all the time, not at ease among the high society, and remarkably not showing any celebratory mood, which is very strange considering this is supposedly the brother-in-law of the freshly re-elected president at his inauguration.
He refuses to give interviews, but was photographed playing cards in an ordinary, cheap, local bar “PMU” (a chain of sports betting bars, present all over France), where the working class comes.
This person is apparently only since 2022 living in a little apartment above a little ‘shop’, “L’Atelier Jean Trogneux”, an ‘outlet’ of the Trogneux business in Amiens that only in 2019 acquired this name, and which Google maps says is now “permanently closed”.
The apartment was purchased in Jean-Michel Trogneux’s name in 1996, but it has nothing of any standard of living that a member of the Trogneux family would find acceptable. When Brigittologists went to check this place out at the end of 2021, they found that nobody in the many shops of the street had ever heard of a “Jean-Michel Trogneux”, not even the people living in the same apartment block, and that everything pointed to the fact that the person living in the flat at that time was not the man in the pictures.
If true, it means that “le Petit Gros” went to live there only after the Brigittologists visited the place a first time, indicating that he is most probably a paid or blackmailed stand-in who has to fill the gap of the missing brother.
This person is not Jean-Michel Trogneux according to Face++ comparisons with the youth pictures of Jean-Michel Trogneux. He also does not fit the bill in any way. He has been checked out by a Brigittologist using the moniker Colonel Napoléon de Guerlasse, who visited the same local, working class bar PMU. We have to remember that the Trogneux family is nouveau riche, part of the French beau monde, they married into wealthy entrepreneurs and are part of the better classes. The little apartment and the very commoners’ bar where this person goes has nothing of that classy life-style that surrounds the whole family. These people spend their lives befriending the rich and powerful, have big houses with servants, and go around in elite circles. Meeting “Jean-Michel Trogneux” completely at home in such a low-class environment is totally out of character, it is simply not credible. In the videos of Macron’s inaugurations, the same feature is noticed: this person does absolutely not behave as if he is part of the Trogneux family, let alone Brigitte’s brother: he seems to be totally out of place and out of his comfort zone, unaware of how things go in the high society, where the Trogneux family belongs.
The Brigittologist claims to have been present in the bar while le Petit Gros was having his weekly game of cards, and to have overheard parts of the conversation with his playing partners, and heard one of the persons call him “Henri”, which is Jean-Michel’s middle name, but still remarkable. All of the alleged conversation (which was not recorded unfortunately) discusses events and people that indicated a life completely different from Jean-Michel Trogneux’s.
Nothing is known about this person, nobody has seen any proof of his identity, and everything surrounding the claim that he is Jean-Michel Trogneux is not credible but outright weird: it raises more questions than it answers (e.g. the alleged picture of Brigitte Macron with Le Petit Gros at the inauguration).
Is this person groomed to play the role of Jean-Michel Trogneux since the first election campaign or forced into the role after the scandal broke “until the affairs blows over”?

Françoise Noguès

Formerly Françoise Macron-Noguès, born in 1950: the alleged mother of Emmanuel Macron. She has admitted that she knew Brigitte Macron all her life: they lived in the same town and were apparently friends early on. Note that Brigitte Trogneux is only three years younger than Françoise, and that Jean-Michel Trogneux is just five years older. Both Jean-Michel and Brigitte Trogneux are thus very close in age to Françoise, who may have been a childhood friend or acquaintance to either. In one of the hagiographies, she cryptically tells the journalist that for her, “Brigitte is not a daughter-in-law”.
Note that Brigitte Macron became a teacher to Françoise’s children later on.
The reason why there is doubt whether she is actually Emmanuel’s biological mother, is that there are no pictures of Emmanuel as a child with this parents, and that he hardly ever mentions them, as if they are mere acquaintances. The official biography seems to indicate that Emmanuel grew up with his grandmother.
To make this already strange state of affairs even more weird, Françoise is, like her husband, a medical doctor, but nothing more is specified about what exactly her field of expertise was or what she did professionally, other than that she was, since 1983, a medical advisor with the Sécurité Sociale, the national fund for medical insurance. But a hearing in the Assemblée Nationale revealed that Françoise Noguès was actually involved in the transition of hermaphrodites to their identified gender. The wall of silence is also here complete, and we only have two testimonies of ‘intersex’ persons that she was involved in their transition. It would not be outlandish to assume that she thus also would be involved in helping transsexuals, as both hermaphrodism and transsexuality are very rare afflictions but have similar surgical interventions and transitions.

Alain Trogneux

Born in 1955: teacher and historian from Amiens, no blood-relationship to the Trogneux family (as incredible as that may be).
He is remarkable not just because of his name, but because he was working at the archives of the Somme department (of which Amiens is the main city), from 1992 until 2008 – the same time period that Brigitte Macron was a teacher in Amiens (1991-2007). He was reported online as digitalising the archives of the Le Courrier Picard newspaper, for the years 1945 until 1960. This is the time frame of the birth and youth of Jean-Michel and Brigitte Trogneux.
Remarkably, a collaborator of Natacha Rey consulting the archives in order to find newspaper clippings related to Jean-Michel and Brigitte Trogneux, found that Alain Trogneux was on both occasions also visiting the archives, and consulting the exact same newspapers and dates as she was. It looked as if he was accompanied by an undercover security guard. At the second encounter, she had some interaction with him, which was very friendly and he seemed to want to help her, but she found it a very awkward situation regardless.
Whether he is of any importance or just a coincidence will hopefully become clear in the near future.