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

[This section is about the pictures of the alleged past of Brigitte Macron. On the Brigitte Macron As A Woman page you can find a large gallery of pictures of Brigitte Macron as the wife of the President.]

There are only a handful of pictures of Brigitte Macron’s alleged youth that have been officially published. More pictures have been dug up by journalists, but they still remain very limited. A lot of weirdness surrounds these pictures also, which increases the speculation about their authenticity and the identity of the persons depicted.

One thing to keep in mind is that almost all of the official pictures have been provided by Bestimage, a French photo agency run until mid-2024 by the notorious Mimi (Michèle) Marchand. She is a criminal convicted of forgery, and involved in quite a number of shady affairs. She had a sort of fall-out with the Macrons in the past few years, with a revelation that Brigitte Macron had her face surgically ‘feminised’ (see the Other Noteworthy Facts page.)
The fact that most of these pictures come from her agency make them quite suspect and prone to photoshopping.

It is also noteworthy that Emanuelle Anizon and Xavier Poussard have claimed they have been given a few pictures on the condition that they would not be published, but only used for their personal research conclusions. This of course adds even more strangeness to the mystery, as they are both journalists.

An even more important point is that ALL of the school pictures of Brigitte Trogneux are being withheld. The school that prides itself of having had Brigitte Macron as a student claims they didn’t keep any archives – clearly against all rules for archiving of national educational institutions.

More about this all will come out in the coming months and years, but here are the main pictures publicly available today:

1. The family picture

Published first in a documentary aired on France 3, this picture of the Trogneux family was not dated, but can tentatively be assumed to be from late 1955 or early 1956 (compare with the school pictures of Jean-Michel; the clothing makes it unlikely this was in summer). We supposedly see Brigitte, almost 3 years old, on her mother’s lap, and Jean-Michel as a 10-11-year-old boy on the left. The other siblings from left to right are Maryvonne (18-19), Jean-Claude (22), Anne-Marie (23 and recently married) and Monique (14).
The main problem for the dating is that Jean-Michel, Monique and Maryvonne seem still quite young in the picture. 11, 14.5 and 19 appear to be the upper limit of how old they can be. However, the little Brigitte seems already very big to be not even 3 years old.
Pressibus have also pointed out that her position on her mother’s lap is strange, and that her mother doesn’t even hold her steady. In truth, nobody other than Jean Trogneux seems to be having a really ‘formal’ and ‘posing’ position in this picture, as if they were not fully ready for it. It somehow seems as if the photographer did not at all do what we expect them to do in these older times: make sure everybody was standing straight and sitting correctly, having their clothes, hair and postures ‘neatened’. The picture would have been perfectly balanced also with Jean-Michel standing on the other side of his father: he would fit in perfectly in what is now an empty space. A good photographer would have cleaned up this picture’s composition before taking it.
Some try to claim that Anne-Marie looks a lot older than 23 here. But that is another feature of those older times: people dressed ‘adult’ from the moment they were out of school, and looked generally middle-aged due to the fact that fashion in those days didn’t differentiate between clothing for twentysomethings and for fiftysomethings.
Note that Pressibus dates this picture as 1953, with the little girl being either unknown or photoshopped in.
Remarkably, this picture has later been published in different, but clearly photoshopped versions: without Jean-Michel (both photoshopped away as well as simply cut off), or without the lamp shade above his head. The different versions have sparked lots of speculation whether it really is Brigitte Trogneux at all, and whether this is a doctored picture to begin with. (With the obvious effect of manipulation in the other versions, it seems there is at this moment no reason to doubt this original is untouched.)
The fact that Jean-Michel has perfect teeth here is also a hot topic, as in his school pictures (at a younger age), he seems to have had issues. (See the discussion about the teeth here.)
What everyone (including the facial recognition software) agrees on, though, is that the resemblance between Brigitte Macron and the young Jean-Michel in this picture is striking. Note that Brigitte Macron is since a few years always wearing wigs that cover her ears. Would this be because since 2021, the Brigittologists have pointed to the very specific ears that Jean-Michel Trogneux has in his childhood pictures, and which look exactly like the ears of Brigitte Macron?

2. The garden picture

This picture is only included here because it is mentioned in the lawsuit against Candace Owens.
Pressibus says this picture was known since long, but never officially identified as Brigitte Macron. Only now the US lawyers of the Macrons claim this was included in the letter they sent to Candace Owens in December 2024, as proof of Brigitte Macron’s childhood as a girl.
Otherwise, there is nothing noteworthy about this picture. It’s too shadowy to really see the face, this ruins it more or less for facial recognition. Apart from that, it can be just anybody. It’s a little girl. Who knows who this is and when or where this picture was taken? It could be anybody. It could be Brigitte Trogneux. Or any other little girl.
It’s almost certainly NOT Brigitte Macron.
This picture is as much proof of anything as the famous picture of the Monster of Loch Ness. It shows a young girl. God knows who.

3. The communicant picture

Due to the high quality in which this picture was published (included in Virginie Linhart’s 2018 documentary), it was originally thought to be a more modern, filter adjusted picture instead of one from the late 1950s.
The girl looks very similar to Tiphaine Auzière, Brigitte Trogneux’s second daughter (see the comparison with Tiphaine on the Facial Recognition page). It was therefore claimed that this was a picture of Tiphaine’s communion, de-colourised to look as if from around 1960.
Xavier Poussard, however, established that this picture is original and fits into a series of pictures that he was given a few of, taken on the day of Brigitte Trogneux and her classmates’ First Communion, a big celebration in the catholic tradition, taking place in the spring around the age of 9. The huge dress-up fits totally with the period. Since the 1980s the dresses became much less traditional, and if Tiphaine would have dressed like this for her First Communion in 1992, she would have stood out like a clown at a funeral.

4. The beach picture of André Auzière

Presented as proof in the second court case against Natacha Rey and Amandine Roy, this picture came as a shock for about everybody: who has ever seen a funeral card of an elderly person with a full-body beach picture? It’s as if each and every fact in Brigitte Macron’s past has to be utterly weird. A funeral card that does not mention the date of birth and date of passing??
Still, the picture is there, and even though the resemblance between this bald guy and the young bridegroom is not so evident, facial recognition has indicated this is indeed the same André Auzière as in the wedding picture, who is not Jean-Louis Auzière, as Natacha Rey and Pressibus originally thought.
Questioned about the weirdness of such a funeral card by Emmanuelle Anizon, Jean-Louis Auzière, who provided this picture to the court as the only proof he could provide of the existence of André Auzière, claims that this was the only picture left of André Auzière, and that “all others were destroyed”. One can only speculate why ALL pictures of Brigitte Trogneux’s alleged husband had to be destroyed. It certainly adds once more to the total weirdness of this whole affair.
In June 2025, at the occasion of Fathers’ Day, two pictures of André Auzière were put online by Laurence and Tiphaine Auzière (the picture with Tiphaine can be found here), but they add nothing new. They confirm that André Auzière existed and that he is the man in the wedding picture and on the death card.
What they most clearly show, is first of all that not all pictures of André Auzière were destroyed, but kept safe. But moreover, they show that we are not allowed to see pictures of the mother of the Auzière children, because her absence in any picture of the children’s youth is endlessly more significant than what we see in the pictures. It is by now clear that if there was a picture that showed Brigitte Macron as their mother, it would have been made public long ago.

5. The wedding picture

Another picture that has provoked endless discussion and great speculation about forgery, is this picture of the alleged 1974 marriage of Brigitte Trogneux with André Auzière. It was published first in a magazine that pre-released the more juicy pages of Sylvie Bommel’s book, as an article about Brigitte Macron’s earlier life.
By that time, Pressibus and Natacha Rey had already seriously advanced in their research, and the complete lack of proof of existence of André Auzière made them believe that in fact, Jean-Michel Trogneux was the father of the Auzière kids, and the mother was unknown.
Through random online searches, Natacha found a certain Catherine Audoy, married to Jean-Louis Auzière, and concluded she had to be the mother. The court case the Auzières filed against Natacha for this claim (and in which Jean-Louis Auzière provided the funeral card with the beach picture), showed that Catherine Audoy cannot be the mother of the Auzière children.
Based on some other weirdness, Pressibus assumes there has to be some ‘Brigitte née Auzière’, who is the mother of the kids, and who gave them the Auzière name, as they were born out of wedlock.
When this wedding picture was dropped, both Natacha and Pressibus fell out of a blue sky: this would completely ruin their elaborate theories. Hence they concluded, not at all irrationally, that since suddenly after all this time (Emmanuel Macron was at the end of his first 5-years as president) this picture is shown, that it has to be a fake created as a reaction to their sleuthing.
The picture has been found in two different newspapers of the time also, but that in itself is weird, because normally the newspapers would send their own photographer to take a quick snapshot when the couple exits the Town Hall or church. Clearly, this is a picture from the family’s own album, used by both newspapers, instead of one they took themselves. It’s by far not the only very weird issue with the newspaper clippings of this marriage.
Even though it is a very low quality picture, Xavier Poussard has found a good similarity between the bride in this picture and the communicant pictures.
The big question here again is: why can Brigitte Macron not provide the original, high quality version of this or any other picture of this event, if this was really her own first wedding?
And, as with the diamond wedding picture, the question here arises: this is clearly a picture taken by a paid photographer. Yet only persons 1, 2 and 5 look towards the camera. Persons 3,4 and 6 (including the groom!), look elsewhere. Is that how group photos are taken, certainly back then? Did they not take a picture in which all persons looked at the camera? Why do we not get that one? And moreover: why were the newspapers not given that one?

6. The marriage witness picture

While researching for her book in 2023, Emmanuelle Anizon interviews Anne-Marie Bouchez, a former classmate of Brigitte Trogneux. Anne-Marie talks about her wedding in 1976, where Brigitte Trogneux was her witness, and provides a picture of it. The picture shows Brigitte in the foreground on the right, fully in profile, with a haircut and clothes that are quite androgynous, and with the bride and groom a bit further away, filling the centre and left space. Xavier Poussard claims that we can clearly recognise the Brigitte from the marriage picture, and the Face++  comparison gives a low result for Brigitte Macron, and a very high result for the bride in the marriage picture. All this seems to prove this is indeed Brigitte Trogneux, although the resemblance with Brigitte Macron is quite striking. This would be one year before the interview with “Véronique”. Was Jean-Michel Trogneux at that time already living as his sister?
Note that it was not Brigitte Macron who published this picture to prove her female past!
To make things strange once again, and to indicate that Jean-Michel Trogneux might already have taken Brigitte’s identity in 1976, Anne-Marie Bouchez tells Emmanuel Anizon that Brigitte Trogneux was not yet married at that time! According to the official story, Brigitte Trogneux married André Auzière in 1974, and by 1976 had already her first child! But Jean-Michel was still officially single and did not yet have any children… at least not officially!

8. The picture with ‘le Petit Gros’

This is a picture that seems totally normal, but is actually super weird. It is not an ‘official’ picture, but was posted on X by a small account as a comment on one of Candace Owens’s X posts.
Even though ‘le Petit Gros’ is seen in the videos of both of Emmanuel Macron’s presidential inaugurations of 2017 and 2022, it doesn’t follow that a picture like this was ever taken, especially not since the man did not behave at all as if he was part of the family or even part of the higher society.
Remember that the identification of this man as Jean-Michel Trogneux was not published by the Elysée or the MSM, but by Jonathan Moadab and Paul-Eric Blanrue (two “conspiracy debunkers”) in their ‘counter-research dossier’.
Emanuelle Anizon claims in her book to have spoken to him and met him, but didn’t even provide a single picture of him.
The clearest indication that we’re looking at a good forgery is looking closely at the man’s left shoulder. Brigitte has her hand on his left shoulder, and this shoulder is somewhere close above her right breast. At the same time, his arm is magically around her waist. Which is only possible if it goes through her body…
Also his face and her hair don’t blend naturally at all, it seems his face was cut out and had a different background. Same with his right hand which holds the glasses.
It seems clear that this is a collage of a picture of Brigitte Macron at the Elysée holding someone else, and ‘le Petit Gros’ pasted in from a different picture.

8. The school pictures of Jean-Michel Trogneux

Xavier Poussard has managed to dig up 4 pictures of Jean-Michel Trogneux as a schoolkid. (Three are shown here, the fourth is on the cover of Xavier Poussard’s book, added to the The Research And The Persons Behind It page.) Face++ has a good resemblance result with Brigitte Macron for the pictures that have a good posture for comparison (the most left picture has him looking down too much). (The pictures are b/w only, this is coloured by AI.)
Discussion of a possible tooth issue can be found here.

9. The school pictures as a teacher

There are quite a lot of pictures available of Brigitte Macron as a teacher (at that time using the name of Brigitte Auzière), a few from the Lucie Berger college in Strasbourg(1986-1991, upper row) but mostly from the infamous La Providence lyceum in Amiens (1991-2007, middle row). Remarkably, she has apparently also taught for 5 years (2007-2012) at the prestigious Saint-Louis de Gonzague lyceum in Paris (nicknamed “Franklin” after the street it is located at), a school for the French elite. But we have only one presumed photo from this part of her alleged career (bottom).
Note that there is no real certainty about these dates, because the biographies, articles and TV documentaries about Brigitte Macron’s past as a teacher give, as absurd as it may be, all different dates for these main points in her life.
It is also not always certain which school or period these pictures pertain to, as they are often shown on TV without any date or explanation, making it seem as if they pertain to what is being talked about without in fact saying as much: they show pictures without assuming the responsibility to inform the viewer what they are being shown. Occasionally, they even show footage that has nothing to do with the life of Brigitte Macron, but can give the impression it does to inattentive viewers.
The pictures are in fact mainly available online, on facebook and websites where alumni share memories. They make for a weird amalgam, and almost seem to show two different persons: one in Strasbourg/Truchtersheim, and another in Amiens. (See the picture below of the local elections candidate.)
Candace Owens has reported on the claims about scarfs and teeth in these pictures, which would show Adam’s apple surgery and orthodontics.
However, the given dates of the pictures do not give us a chronology that proves ‘before/after’ procedures. The scarfs show up in the Providence pictures, while there is no Adam’s apple visible in the Lucie Berger pictures, which are older. How does that make sense? (See here for a discussion of the teeth issue.)
It is for each to make of it what they want, but the person teaching in Strasbourg seems to be different from the person teaching in Amiens, with the pictures of Amiens looking more male than the ones of Strasbourg, which makes no sense chronologically.
Remember also that this is the person who during the first presidential campaing of the Macrons was sold to the public as a super hot, Claudia Schiffer-lookalike that had all boys’ hearts racing. An obvious lie, spread in order to paper over the fact that she had an illegal relationship with one of the students.
More details of Brigitte’s alleged teaching career can be found on the page Brigitte The Teacher.

10. The androgynous picture

Published first in Virginie Linhart‘s documentary, aired on France 3 in 2018, this picture is quite remarkable in its androgyneity. Compare this to pictures of for example the German pop duo Modern Talking during that same period.
The exact year is not certain, but was given as 1991. It is said to be a picture of her time at La Providence (Amiens). If that’s correct, then it can indeed be at the very earliest from 1991.

11. The 1989 local elections candidate picture

In 2017, national TV channel France 3 publishes a find: an election leaflet from 1989, in which “Brigitte Auzière” (supposedly Brigitte Macron) apparently runs for mayor in the village she lives and works in at that moment: Truchtersheim, near Strasbourg. The picture we get is very vague, one really wonders why they didn’t get a better picture or a simple scan of the election flyer.
The picture is way too vague to be used for facial recognition. Someone enhanced and coloured the picture with AI, and that enhanced picture is now widely used, even though it has seriously altered the face of the person.
By examining the school pictures in detail (see the Brigitte The Teacher page), it could be established that Brigitte used a school picture for this leaflet.

12. The picture at 18 years old

This picture was the big reveal of the launch of Xavier Poussard’s book Becoming Brigitte and the accompanying series of Candace Owens.
It is allegedly a picture of Jean-Michel Trogneux, taken from the ‘trombinoscope’ (the French equivalent of a school yearbook, which many higher educational institutions used to keep long before the internet and digital photography became a thing) of the school year 1963-64 of the Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics (ESTP, Special School for Public Works, located just south of Paris). It is a now prestigious engineering school, not where one would expect Jean-Michel, as a son of the Trogneux pastry chefs/chocolatiers, and after his time in Algiers. On top of it, he didn’t get far either, as he only attended the preparatory courses of this school, in the city centre of Paris, and even failed these, as he didn’t do well enough and was more and more absent. He clearly wasn’t seriously studying here: what was he doing then instead?
It took Xavier a truckload of sleuthing, insisting, a court case, and the school claiming they don’t have pictures anymore, to finally obtain it from the Departmental Archives of Val de Marne, and still then only upon showing them the court ruling that Xavier had the right to this information!
Pressibus is convinced that this picture is not Jean-Michel Trogneux, even though their Betaface comparison scores remarkably high to simply dismiss. Their correspondents have all concluded that there are too many differences in primary facial features to accept the picture as genuine (much broader neck, smaller ears, hair split on the other side etc.).
A strong point in their argumentation is the fact that the trombinoscope as a whole (Xavier Poussard was sent a picture of the whole picture board, which can be found in his book and on the Pressibus website) is – who expected anything else – weird: the passport pictures are coming loose, one is missing, but remarkably, according to the accompanying name list, the pictures’ alphabetical order is messed up exactly from the picture of Jean-Michel Trogneux onwards. At the moment, it is for everyone to make up their own minds, but these are the facts.
Because of the glasses, the picture cannot be used by the Face++ facial recognition software, according to Xavier Poussard. However, online information on this software says it should not matter (which is logical if it is used by the Chinese government to tell 1.5 billion Chinese apart). (See the The Facial Recognition page for a bit more discussion about the facial software usage.) Pressibus reported that Xavier did the comparison nonetheless, and it turned out to be much lower than expected, which is why he did not publish it.
However, the resemblance seems striking (admitting that judging pictures without software is easily deceiving): the same chin, puffy cheeks, mouth and nose, and yes, also ears.
The seemingly shorter ears can be the result of foreshortening: this picture has the head slightly tilted upwards. Pressibus claims the ears are way shorter and rounder than in the family picture or in photos of Brigitte Macron, but they do not take into account that the head of this young man here is slightly tilted upwards: the nostrils in this picture are clearly visible, while not in the family picture. Foreshortening is a very important perspective concept to know and understand when dealing with 2D images. Everyone can try this out in the mirror: lifting the chin only a centimetre or two brings down the top of the ears compared to the eyes in a serious manner.
It seems that the ears of the young man are as long as those of the boy or Brigitte, and that the way the top of the schoolboy’s and Brigitte Macron’s ears are ‘squared’ is less visible here, due to the upward tilt, but not absent.
Once again, everyone can decide for themselves if they accept this picture to be possibly Jean-Michel Trogneux or not. Pressibus gives their arguments in different locations (as they update the site whenever new info comes to light), but you can find all the links in section 7 of this page, even though for now only in French).
They have also published the result of their comparison with the less performant Betaface facial recognition software, which you can see here on the left. The resemblance with Brigitte Macron and the androgynous picture is very high, near-identical. But with the pictures from the Lucie Berger school, it’s much lower. It’s a bit difficult to see, but the percentages are 71, 88, 87, 67 and 64. Note that the lower results are with colour pictures while the base picture is b/w.

13. The diamond wedding anniversary picture

If you think that anything in this affair is going to be normal or straightforward, think again. Here’s another mystery.
This picture was also published in Virginie Linhart‘s docu, and taken at the occasion of the celebration of the 60^th marriage anniversary of Jean Trogneux and Simone Pujol, which strictly speaking was September 26^th 1991. This was a Thursday, and the celebration may have taken place on any other day in late September or early October 1991.
Brigitte is on her knees, on the grass, just right off centre, behind the kids. A person using the handle @_KOTS_ captioned the picture and published it on Twitter/X. Even thought that was very useful, note that he wrote “Brigitte T 38”, whereas Brigittologists label this person “Jean-Michel T 46”.
The most obvious weirdness here is: where is the real group picture? This was clearly a picture taken during the gathering of everybody for the ‘official’ group picture, which is not published. Why not? Why show a picture where nobody looks at the camera (except for the little girl in the middle, with the KOTS watermark under her face, who looks at us with a very intriguing ‘I know something you don’t’-smile) and where several people are still hidden in the back as they have not taken their places yet? (It seems obvious that this is the preparation for the group picture, not the aftermath, as the adults are still getting in place, while the children are already waiting. The children would also be the first to run away: it’s always children first, then adults. Since the children are ready, it logically has to be before the ‘real’ picture was taken.)
The second most obvious question is: where is Jean-Michel Trogneux? “In the bathroom” is one of the most idiotic and absurd answers possible, that however is given in all earnest by some Brigitte Macron apologists.
The third most obvious question is: where is André Auzière? “He took the picture” is another stupid Macronist fervour-revealing answer produced.
The fourth question then is: is Véronique Dreux present? Some suggest she was indeed present, and that therefore also the official picture wasn’t released.
In any case: we have here another picture that raises way more questions than it answers.

14. The light blue swimsuit picture

There are several genuine pictures of Brigitte Macron with weirdness, like a bulge in the pubic region or breasts going haywire and of very different sizes. You can find more information on this on the Brigitte Macron As A Woman page.
One of the most famous ones is the one in the light blue swimsuit. It was published by the Slovenian edition of Elle magazine, but went viral due to the tiny bulge where normally there should be nothing.
This picture is noteworthy because it is part of the cyber-bullying accusations against Xavier Poussard and others.
This picture is part of a series made that same day that shows Emmanuel Macron being very, very close and physical with his body guards while in swim trunks on the boat, which had not gone unnoticed, and resulted even in an AI video that took the next step to him kissing with one of them. (In fact, the original format of this picture includes Emmanuel and his bodyguards.)
Surprisingly, Laurence Auzière had shared this picture as an instagram story, captured “ma maman” (my mom).
In the end, it is for each one to decide what they see or don’t see.

15. The Macrons’ wedding cake

There’s not much to say about this video still. Brigitte Macron wears a very short “wedding dress”, also for a woman of her age, but more importantly: have you ever seen such a “wedding cake”? A straight cylinder with some sort of curved horns on top, surrounded by fire?