The president’s wife gives her version on the origin of “I cross the street”

“A word can condemn you”, it is with this sentence that Brigitte Macron tried to conclude her textual explanation of her husband’s words. The wife of the President of the Republic, who for the first time accepted a TV interview, indeed gave Thursday on TF1 her analysis of the origin of her husband’s little phrase “I am crossing the street, I find work for you”.

The phrase of a restaurateur

“The day before we were at the restaurant and the restaurant owner said to us: The first one who will cross the street, I give him a job, because I need workers near me. And this sentence that Emmanuel said at that time is the sentence he had heard, that the restaurateur had said the day before, “said Brigitte Macron. She added that she reproached him for this sentence, which the head of state had launched at a young person unemployed at the Elysée Palace during Heritage Days, September 15, 2018, regularly cited by its detractors. “A sentence that did not bring me luck,” admitted Emmanuel Macron Wednesday during his greetings to the press.

“You’re inside the Elysee Palace, it’s complicated to say to a young man a sentence like this,” she told him. “Of course, we don’t have to say it,” said his wife. “But sometimes we have sentences that come out spontaneously, that damage our image, but it’s too late, the sentence is said. We are in an era where a word can condemn you and you are reduced to that word indefinitely.

Emmanuel Macron will do “what he wants” in 2022

The head of state’s wife also denied the arrogance charges against her husband. “This assurance that he has is an assurance of knowledge. But perhaps something in the form does not suit, “she admitted, even if the French who meet him are, according to her,” happy “.

As for the anger of the hospital staff, that which has just succeeded Bernadette Chirac as president of the Fondation Hôpitaux de Paris-Hôpitaux de France and of the Operation Yellow Pieces, replied that “it is a fight that we understand “. She finally castigated those who insult her on social networks on condition of anonymity: “we can assassinate you, in complete freedom, it’s incredible”, but outside the Elysée Palace “it is very rare that they approach me to be aggressive ”.

Finally, asked about 2022 and a candidacy forEmmanuel Macron, she slipped in particular: “he will do what he wants and anyway I will be there for him”.

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