Madeleine
La estación de la línea 12
Estación de Madeleine Estación de Madeleine (París)
Ubicación
Coordenadas	48°52′11″N 2°19′28″E
Comuna	VIII Distrito
Localidad	París
Datos de la estación
Código	10-03 o MAD
Inauguración	5 de noviembre de 1910
Pasajeros	Sin datos disponibles
N.º de vías	6
Propietario	RATP
Operador	RATP
Líneas
Estación de Concorde ←   → Estación de Opéra     Estación de Paris Saint-Lazare ←   → Estación de Concorde     Estación de Paris Saint-Lazare ←   → Estación de Pyramides
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Madeleine es una estación de las líneas 8, 12 y 14 del metro de París situada en el 8.º distrito, cerca de la Iglesia de la Madeleine.

El nombre de la estación proviene de un pueblo que se estableció en el siglo vi al oeste de la capital en torno a una capilla de la diócesis de París que fue dedicada en el siglo xiii a Santa María Magdalena. Siglos después se incorporó a París al crecer la ciudad y se edificó el actual templo de estilo neoclásico.

Fue inaugurada el 5 de noviembre de 1910 con la apertura de la línea A, hoy línea 12, de la Compañía Nord-Sud. El 13 de julio de 1913, llegaría la línea 8, con la puesta en marcha de su tramo inicial entre en Beaugrenelle y Opéra. Mucho más recientemente, el 15 de octubre de 1998, se abrió la estación de la línea 14, una estación que marcó el final de línea hasta el año 2003, siendo posteriormente prolongada hasta Saint-Lazare.

Se compone de dos andenes laterales 75 metros de longitud y de dos vías.

Está diseñada en bóveda elíptica revestida completamente de los clásicos azulejos blancos biselados del metro parisino.

La iluminación es de estilo Motte y se realiza con lámparas resguardadas en estructuras rectangulares de color naranja que sobrevuelan la totalidad de los andenes no muy lejos de las vías.

La señalización por su parte usa la moderna tipografía Parisine donde el nombre de la estación aparece en letras blancas sobre un panel metálico de color azul. Por último los asientos, que también son de estilo Motte, combinan una larga y estrecha hilera de cemento revestida de azulejos naranja que sirve de banco improvisado con algunos asientos individualizados de color amarillo que se sitúan sobre dicha estructura.

Se compone de dos andenes laterales curvados de 75 metros de longitud y de dos vías.

En su diseño es idéntica a la estación de la línea 8 variando el color, ya que en este caso se ha optado por el rojo.

A diferencias de las anteriores, la estación de la línea 14 si ofrece mayores elementos decorativos.

En sus accesos, dentro de una urna de cristal, se conserva una réplica de una obra del escultor rumano Constantin Brancusi llamada La prière (el rezo), que muestra a una figura humana desnuda rezando de rodillas. La obra fue donada a la RATP por la fundación franco-rumana para celebrar el 125 aniversario del nacimiento del autor. También en los accesos a la estación se encuentra una vidriera semicircular, a pie de suelo, que representa la gallina Ryaba junto a un texto escrito en ruso que fue donada por el metro de Moscú. Por último, dentro de la estación, en la bóveda de piedra se encuentra una instalación artística, realizada por Jacques Tissinier, titulada Tissignalisation n°14. Consiste en la colocación de mil discos de acero de 16 centímetros de diámetro que simulan hojas de papiro estilizadas coloreadas en blanco, azul, rojo y naranja.

En cuando a la estación en si, se compone de dos andenes laterales de 120 metros y de dos vías, siguiendo con el diseño moderno de todas las estaciones de la línea 14. Sin embargo, eso no ha evitado problemas de mal olor causado por la emanación de ácido sulfhídrico por culpa de una aislamiento defectuoso de las instalaciones.¹​

• Pierre Miquel (1993). Petite histoire des stations de métro. éditions Albin Michel. ISBN 2-226-06671-3.

Macron in 2024
Spouse of the President of France
Current
Assumed role 14 May 2017
President	Emmanuel Macron
Preceded by	Valérie Trierweiler (2014)
Personal details
Born	Brigitte Marie-Claude Trogneux 13 April 1953 (age 71) Amiens, France
Spouses	André-Louis Auzière ​ ​ (m. 1974; div. 2006)​ Emmanuel Macron   ​ (m. 2007)​
Children	3, including Laurence Auzière-Jourdan
Occupation	Teacher (formerly)

Brigitte Marie-Claude Macron (French: [bʁiʒit maʁi klod makʁɔ̃]; née Trogneux [tʁɔɲø], previously Auzière [ozjɛːʁ]; born 13 April 1953) is a French former teacher known for being the wife of Emmanuel Macron, the current president of France and co-prince of Andorra.^[1][2]

Brigitte Macron was born Brigitte Marie-Claude Trogneux in Amiens, France. She is the youngest of six children^[3] of Simone (née Pujol; 1910–1998) and Jean Trogneux (1909–1994), the owners of the five-generation Chocolaterie Trogneux,^[4] founded in 1872 in Amiens.^[5] The company, now known as Jean Trogneux,^[6] is run by her nephew, Jean-Alexandre Trogneux.^[4]

Macron, at the time Brigitte Auzière, taught literature at the Collège Lucie-Berger in Strasbourg in the 1980s.^[7] By the 1990s, she was teaching French and Latin at Lycée la Providence, a Jesuit high school in Amiens. From 2007 to 2015, she taught at Lycée Saint-Louis de Gonzague,^[8] in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, one of the most prestigious French private schools. At that institution, she was the French teacher of Frédéric and Jean Arnault, sons of French luxury business tycoon Bernard Arnault.^[9]

It was at the after-school drama club of Lycée la Providence where she and Emmanuel Macron first met.^[10] She was in charge of the after-school theater club he attended when he was 15 alongside her own daughter Laurence who was in his class.^[11] Their relationship has attracted controversy, as she is his senior by close to 25 years, and he was a minor; Macron has described it as "a love often clandestine, often hidden, misunderstood by many before imposing itself".^[12]

In 1989, Brigitte Macron (then Auzière) unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the city council of Truchtersheim.^[7] It was the only time she ran for office.^[7]

In 2017, Brigitte Macron played an active role in her husband's presidential campaign; a top adviser was quoted as saying that "her presence is essential for him".^[13] During his campaign, Emmanuel Macron stated that upon his winning of the French presidency, his wife would "have the role that she always had, she will not be hidden".^[14]

He proposed creating an official "first lady" (première dame) title (as the spouse of the French president currently holds no official title) coming with their own staff, office and a personally allocated budget for their activities.^[15] Following Macron's election as president and his previously outspoken stance against nepotism,^[16] a petition against his proposal gathered more than 275,000 signatures, and the French government announced that Brigitte Macron would not hold the official title of "first lady" and would not be allocated an official budget.^[17] In an interview with French magazine Elle, she stated that a soon-to-be published transparency charter would clarify her "role and accompanying resources", including the composition and size of her staff. This charter was published the following Friday.^[18]

Brigitte Macron has been the subject of glowing articles in the Daily Mail, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and The Observer.^[19] Her style of dress at international meetings has often been commented upon.^[20] For its part, the Financial Times described her style as similar to that of an "Essex girl".^[21] Close to Bernard Arnault's family, she was dressed for free by Louis Vuitton during her official outings, which created controversy.^[22][23]

In March 2018, the office of the Élysée Palace filed a complaint for identity theft after discovering that Brigitte Macron's name was being used to obtain preferential treatment in luxury establishments through a false email address. According to the office, the complaint was related to "a very clear attempt to harm [Brigitte Macron's] reputation".^[24] In October 2021, a 35-year-old man who claimed to be Brigitte Macron's nephew was sentenced to 30 months in prison, 18 of which were suspended, for identity theft, attempted fraud, and fraud as a repeat offender.^[25]

In August 2020, during the presidential couple's vacation at the Fort de Brégançon, yellow vest protesters gathered on a nearby beach and launched several inflatable lobsters, one of which bore insults directed at the "First Lady". On September 30, before the Toulon Criminal Court, one of the protesters was tried for "public insult to the President of the Republic" and "public insult and defamation of individual(s)". According to Var-Matin, the case was dismissed due to a procedural defect. Lawyer Juan Branco argued that an employee of the Élysée Palace filed the complaint without a mandate and in the absence of Brigitte Macron's signature, leading the court to accept the nullity plea based on the provisions of the law of July 29, 1881, on freedom of the press.^[26][27]

On August 22, 2018, Thierry-Paul Valette filed a complaint against Brigitte Macron^[28] at the Lisieux police station as part of the transparency charter. The grounds for the complaint were the offenses of passive influence peddling, passive corruption, and complicity in a passive conflict of interest by a person charged with a public service mission. The case was closed without further action in August 2019.^[29]

Brigitte Macron's image has also been illegally exploited by several scammers online, who used it to sell and promote anti-wrinkle creams, falsely claiming she was the muse or creator of these products.^[30]

On 22 June 1974, Brigitte married banker André-Louis Auzière (1951–2019),^[31][32] with whom she had three children (Sébastien, born 1975; Laurence, born 1977; and Tiphaine, born 1984).^[8] They resided in Truchtersheim until 1991, when they moved to Amiens.^[7] In 1993, at the age of 39, she met the 15-year-old Emmanuel Macron in La Providence High School,^[33][34] where she was a teacher and he was a student and a classmate of her daughter.^[35] Brigitte divorced Auzière in January 2006 and married Macron on 20 October 2007.^[36][37]

•  Denmark: Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog (28 August 2018)^[38]
•  Italy: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1 July 2021)^[39]
•  Ivory Coast: Commander of the Order of the Ivory Coast (21 December 2019)^[40]
•  Sweden: Member Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star (30 January 2024)^[41]