Becoming Brigitte: Episode 3 — Candace Owens investigates the background of French First Lady Brigitte Macron
Candace Owens presents the third episode of her Becoming Brigitte series, examining the background of French First Lady Brigitte Macron and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Summary
Candace Owens continues her multi-part investigative series into the backgrounds of Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron, drawing on the work of several journalists — most notably Xavier Poussard and Sylvie Bamel — as well as a forthcoming book by Poussard. The episode covers Emmanuel Macron's unusually close relationship with his maternal grandmother Manette, the books she reportedly shared with him (including works by authors with disturbing associations), and revelations about his mother Dr. Françoise Noguès-Macron's extensive involvement in assisting gender transitions through the French Social Security system. Owens also details the near-total erasure of Brigitte Macron's first husband André-Louis Auzière from public record — including the destruction of almost all photographs of him, a rushed and secretive funeral, and the Élysée Palace's alleged involvement in managing the narrative around his death. A defamation case brought by the misidentified cousin Louis-André Auzière (at the Élysée Palace's encouragement) against journalist Natacha Rey is examined in detail, with Owens arguing that the case was won on a technicality — Rey's misidentification of a man in the wedding photo — rather than on the substance of the underlying questions about Brigitte's identity. Owens also digresses into a discussion of the MK Ultra program, connecting themes of psychiatric experimentation, isolation, and sexual abuse to the broader Macron story. The episode closes with Owens reading audience comments, teasing an Epstein connection to the Macron story in a future episode, and reflecting on her personal resilience over the past year.
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FULL TRANSCRIPT
Introduction and Recap of the Series
Candace Owens: We made it to Friday. I am so sorry that we are running late — today has been an insane day and it seems to only be getting crazier. We're going to jump right back into our series because we left you on a bit of a cliffhanger. We showed you this side-by-side of current President Emmanuel Macron and a person who is supposed to be Brigitte's nephew — his wife's nephew — but these two people, who are not supposed to be in any way related, look way too much alike. Is this just a coincidence? Well, you will soon come to realize that there are a lot of strange coincidences that just keep arising when it comes to the Macrons and their mysterious backgrounds. So welcome back to our Becoming Brigitte series.
To briefly recap last episode: we learned that Emmanuel Macron's classmates described him as a bit of a mystery. No one knew what he was up to outside of school. He kept to himself, he wasn't part of any cliques, nobody knew anything about his parents or what they did for a living. We also learned that Emmanuel Macron, as president, appeared to know very little about his own immediate family. We recounted a couple of stories for you — including that he had only a couple of lines about his family in his autobiography, while having much more to say about Brigitte's family. His family appears equally as distant from him as he is from them, refusing to discuss him ever. And his biological brother told a work colleague that Emmanuel was his first cousin — and that was before he became president. So when someone said, "Oh, do you know this guy who's like one of the ministers?" he said, "No, that's my cousin."
Then there is of course the odd circumstance of him having been asked about his biological sister, who lived nearby — a politician — and when the politician asked about her, oddly Emmanuel didn't answer, but he looked at Brigitte to know what to say. That's weird.
Emmanuel Macron's Grandmother Manette
Now, the only family member that seems to get any airtime from Emmanuel Macron — the person that he seems comfortable discussing publicly and showing affection for — is his grandmother. His grandmother was a woman named Germaine Noguès, born Germaine Aret, who he affectionately referred to as Manette. When discussing his childhood in his book Revolution, she is the only one that he incorporates into his childhood often. He wrote this:
"So I spent my childhood in books, somewhat out of the world. It was a still life. I remember those early mornings when I would go to her room and she would tell me stories of her wartime friendships. As a child I would pick up the thread of the interrupted discussion every day and travel through her life as if picking up a novel — and the smell of coffee she sometimes brewed in the middle of the night, and my bedroom door ajar as early as 7:00 in the morning when I had not yet come to her, exclaiming with feigned concern: 'Are you still asleep?'"
There was even one journalist who raised the possibility that he had sort of been adopted by his grandmother Manette. Either way, it becomes very important that we learn a little bit about this woman. Who was she? He alleges that she taught him how to read. According to him, she lived just a few blocks away from his parents in Amiens, and he also recounts in his book that he spent his summer and winter vacations at her family home in Bagnères-de-Bigorre, and that that's where he learned to walk, where he learned to fish, where he learned to play rugby with his grandparents. So much time spent with his grandparents — and maybe that explains this bizarre absence of childhood photos with his siblings or with his parents.
According to witnesses, Manette was exceedingly private, just like her grandson — often leaving the shutters to her home firmly shut. Once she retired, she hardly ever ventured outside because she was surrounded by books, kind of in her own lair. Which explains why and how Macron claims to have been brought up surrounded by books as well.
The Books on Macron's Bedside Table
But which books specifically? He gave an answer to that. According to journalists Candice Neale and Caroline Derrien's biography entitled The Macrons, they wrote: "As a teenager, young Macron escaped by reading books by André Gide and Michel Tournier — that book being called The Erl-King in English. Those are the books that are on his bedside table. His beloved maternal grandmother shared a liking for these authors with him."
Now, we've already discussed André Gide — I think that was in our first introductory episode. This was the man who was a self-admitted pederast who admitted to raping Muslim boys in Algeria in particular, to explore and learn about his sexuality — throwing off the chains, the confines of his Christian upbringing, and really learning about himself through traveling to Algeria. And yet despite this, Macron was comfortable putting his book on his bedside table growing up with Grandma. He was comfortable putting this in his presidential portrait.
The other author we haven't discussed — that he mentioned to these journalists — is Michel Tournier. Apparently another favorite. And the book is an even stranger choice, I would say, for a grandmother to be sharing with her grandson. It's quite controversial. Again, it's called The Erl-King — the Erl-King being a mythological creature that chases after children. And in this book, passages are — well, I'll just read it to you:
"Children's buttocks are alive, quivering, always alert, sometimes sunken and seconds later smiling and naively optimistic, as expressive as faces."
Now, I don't know if my grandparents were doing it wrong, but they gave me the Bible. We talked about Bible passages. We weren't being given books that speak about children's buttocks. That is just completely absurd.
In that book, the protagonist discusses children that are advanced for their age. This is a quote from that book:
"The category of children with surprising intellectual maturity who seem to have read and understood everything from birth, contradicting a physical immaturity that gives an air of ingenuity to everything that they say."
You know, that kind of sounds familiar, right? It's virtually the exact same explanation that the press got right to work on regarding this bizarre story of Brigitte having fallen for a 14-year-old and then setting upon marrying him when she was 39 or 40 years old. They said — remember — despite the fact that he was a little boy, he was just so intellectually advanced. He was a virtuoso. He was Mozart. Don't you understand? He was not like regular kids, even though he was so young. We don't want you to think about that. Yeah. It seems like that second author provides that explanation — which is not an explanation. It's one that should never have been accepted.
I should tell you that Manette died on April 13th — and I'm sorry, I forgot to write down the year here, I want to say it was 2021, we will correct that — but the point is, it's also April 13th, the day that Brigitte Macron was born. It's also the same day that the CIA's MK Ultra program was born. And if you've been watching my new series, I am borderline obsessed with learning everything that I can about the MK Ultra program. This is not a discussion that should just be taking place in America. Learning about the programs of our deep states — these very real programs that existed and that we don't want to talk about in school — is a terrifying process. It's one of the reasons why I routinely promote that book Chaos, because it ripped me into a new reality of understanding just how evil our governments have been, and I would argue are.
There is no conspiracy here. MK Ultra was real. The government was obsessed with all of these different programs — really the main point being trying to condition the brain, trying to brainwash people, sometimes through isolation. Which it sounds like Emmanuel Macron spent a ton of time isolated throughout his childhood. He's acknowledging that he lived through books, and his would-be friends are acknowledging that he was kind of a loner and on his own. They would experiment psychologically through isolation, through drugs — LSD, drugging people to see if they could get them to commit crimes or to commit other acts unwittingly — essentially trying to establish a Manchurian candidate, somebody that responds to cues, does what they want them to do without question. Wondering if they could control people and using this as a weapon of sorts.
It is so important for people to learn about the MK Ultra program and the different names that it took on. It started earlier than when it was named MK Ultra and went on further. Ask yourself whether you really believe that when they say they just discontinued it — that they were just no longer interested in drugging soldiers and trying to see if they could kill people and program people — ask yourself if you believe that. Your government, which was capable of that kind of evil, is also capable of telling you the truth that once they got caught, they just stopped. And then also recognize that the majority of the documents pertaining to that program were destroyed. So we don't know just how global that program went. We don't know every element of that program. And if any person said that they were a part of that program — and many have — that person would be dismissed as evil, or insane, or lying.
One element of that program was of course sexual perversions — committing sexual assaults in order to then establish how it impacts somebody's psyche. Truly evil stuff.
Emmanuel Macron's Parents — Psychiatry and Gender Transitions
Now, earlier I told you that Macron's alleged biological parents had some interesting jobs. His father, Jean-Michel Macron, was a psychiatrist. And yes, of course, we know for a fact that psychiatrists have done some evil things — some very evil things throughout the years. Don't even get me started. I should actually go on a tangent about who Sigmund Freud was and how disturbing it is that he is taught within our school systems here in America as some sort of a hero who broke through modern psychiatry. We'll pause and talk about that in a different episode so as not to get lost.
So daddy Macron was a psychiatrist, and his mother Françoise — she's very important — was a pediatrician. What an absolute combination for Emmanuel Macron growing up.
Well, interestingly enough, something very interesting was discovered about his mother Françoise. Now, we told you she was a pediatrician who also served as a medical advisor to the Social Security Office. Well, eventually something very interesting came up about her and her work for the Social Security Administration.
I'm going to read straight from journalist Xavier Poussard's upcoming book. He writes:
"Faced with the wall of Emmanuel Macron's childhood, we decided to screen it meticulously with this question in mind: why did the family refuse to respond to journalist requests, and why did they need Brigitte's approval? A hearing at the French National Assembly caught our attention. It was that of Saine Tesort. She was giving a testimony. Tesort was the president of the Institute for Intersexuality and Hermaphroditism and the Association of Europe. Now, she was born in Bouet in 1956 under the name Sylvain Tesort, and then changed her name to Syane by a court ruling in Paris on May 15, 2007. So actually Syane was born a he, and he incidentally revealed to the French National Assembly that he had been given administrative support in his gender transition by a senior doctor at the Primary Health Insurance Fund — Dr. Françoise Noguès-Macron, also known as Emmanuel Macron's mother."
So a person who had transitioned suddenly testifies and says, "Actually, yeah, the person that assisted me in doing that was Dr. Françoise Noguès-Macron." So we know that that took place — that she was involved in supporting gender transitions. The question then remained whether this was simply a unique case or whether Macron's mother had been involved in this category of work more extensively.
And the answer came out last year when an intersex individual who goes by the name Alexandra described how she had benefited from, quote, "waivers granted by the national referral advisor, Dr. Françoise Noguès-Macron, who — it must be said — is the mother of the current president. She has done a tremendous amount of work following all kinds of generations of people like me, granting subsidies so that we can have access to the best specialists, so that we can take our time, and so that in everyday life we are not on the margins. If people were rejected by their families, she would find them a small room and they would receive a disability pension for the duration of the trip. In short, it was very, very well organized. I don't understand why people despise this protocol."
In a second interview, she explained that Françoise Noguès was concerned with a particular pathology known as primary congenital pseudo-hermaphroditism.
But you know, I'm sure all of that is just a coincidence. All of it. I mean, anyone who does not understand how these things just keep happening — they're just a crazy conspiracy theorist, right? I mean, yeah. Okay. We've got some questions about the gender of his wife, why her past doesn't seem to be coming together. We have some questions about his past. His dad is a psychiatrist, his mother does some specialty work assisting people in their transitions, and they kept this quiet when they got married. And when they became the president and the first lady, they just had all of these either transgender or pedophilic-type things keep popping up. But I'm sure all of this is a coincidence, guys. The books, everything — it's just one big coincidence.
Let's pause there, because there are going to be a few more coincidences that are going to happen.
Sylvie Bamel's Investigation into Brigitte's Past
All right, now let's get back into the story of Brigitte, because there just seem to be a lot of coincidences going on here.
We had mentioned already a journalist by the name of Sylvie Bamel — she's that left-leaning journalist who has bylines in Vanity Fair. Like I said, this stuff was not coming from conspiracy theorists. This is such a lie that is told to the English-speaking world. She is the one who has dedicated the most time to trying to get into the past of Brigitte, to learn about the past of Brigitte, and she just kept coming up against a wall. And again, to remind you, these journalists were like, "Yay, powerful woman taking charge at the Élysée Palace! I just want to learn more about her so I can promote her to the world." You know, who doesn't love a strong character, especially if you're a feminist like these writers were?
So she begins working on the second biography about Brigitte, entitled He Had Just Turned 17 — actually a funny title, and an untrue title. Sylvie Bamel actually disputes it in this very book. She lands upon a different answer in her last chapter — she writes that Emmanuel Macron had actually only just turned 15. She probably went with a different title because they would have panicked at the Élysée Palace if she went with He Just Turned 15. They probably would have been doing some terrifying things — maybe they would have just called her into the office for a talk.
Throughout this second investigation leading up to the publication of this book, she poured through all these public interviews given by Brigitte and just kept coming across these little mistakes that Brigitte would make about how old she was during certain things. There is this very famous judge in America known as Judge Judy, and Judge Judy says something she repeats: if you lie, you have to have a good memory. If you don't lie, you don't have to have a good memory, because it's just true. So you don't have to be like, "Oh, what did I tell this person? What did I say?" and make all these little errors.
So one mistake that Brigitte made in this long biographical interview that she gave to Elle magazine was regarding her older sister, her late sister Marie-France, who had died in a car accident. When Brigitte gave this interview, she said that it was this traumatic thing that was ingrained in her mind, that she was eight years old at the time of her sister's death, and that she carried her sister around with her every single day of her life. She also stated that her niece died a year later at the age of six.
So Xavier Poussard was very troubled by this. First and foremost, Sylvie Bamel was able to determine that actually, no — she wasn't six when her sister died, she was eight. Now, that's just a two-year difference, but I feel that by the time you're eight, if something that big happens in your life, you don't really mess up the date by two years. It would just be a very raw memory. But maybe it was just a mistake.
Regarding that second person that she says died — the niece that allegedly died a year later — he thought that was strange because there had been so much written about Brigitte's nieces, and yet there was no mention of one who had died anywhere. So he got right to work researching it, and finally at long last he was able to confirm, by visiting a family plot that Brigitte's family had, that there was a niece named Sylvie who had passed away following a surgery in 1996. Okay, great — but that was nearly six years after her sister Marie-France had died, not one year. But six. Now that is a huge difference.
The Mystery of Brigitte's First Husband, André-Louis Auzière
Sylvie Bamel's main focus on this second book was really trying to learn more about Brigitte's first husband, André-Louis Auzière — that's the banker that she had married when she was 21 years old, the man who had his wife rather dramatically stolen from him by a teenage virtuoso Mozart-type. And no one could get in touch with him. Remember, we spoke about the documentary filmmaker who similarly said this was like a black hole — she referred to him as the Élysée Palace's best-kept secret. No one could get through.
There was also a magazine — Capital magazine — who summed it up in 2017 with this general impression, referring to André-Louis as "a real ghost. Not a single photograph of him on the web, not a single image in the thick press agency catalogues. Biographies barely mention his career as a banker. Whatever happened to Brigitte Macron's ex-husband?"
Having renewed her investigation, Sylvie Bamel also remarked how weird it was that this man, who had worked at two big banks — one of them being Crédit du Nord — seemingly left the industry without a trace. She wrote in her book that it was "like an episode of Black Mirror where the president's offices have found a way to penetrate the brains of his former acquaintances and erase everything."
Prior to the release of her book, Sylvie decided to release a few excerpts in a magazine called Le Point. And then suddenly, at long last, in that magazine in April of 2019 — ahead of her book publication — a wedding photo emerged from Brigitte's first marriage. So they're now in office, about two years in, and here it is: a picture from Brigitte's first marriage. Allegedly. Here's the photo.
I want you to look at it. I am not a facial recognition software, but that woman does not look to me like the current First Lady Brigitte Macron. I know faces change, but that does not look to me like the current First Lady Brigitte Macron. Just take a look at this side-by-side. I could maybe say these people are related, but checking it — I'd say nope. What happened? This is not — who is this person in this photo?
But you can't just make assumptions on the basis of looking at people and deciding what's true and what's false. And they were able to find — Sylvie Bamel was able to find — a marriage certificate which certifies that in Liévin, somebody named Brigitte Trogneux definitely did marry someone named André-Louis Auzière on June 22nd, 1974. So that checks out. And not only that, but the best man at the wedding was her brother Jean-Michel Trogneux. And that was a huge breakthrough, because this tells us that Brigitte was extremely close with her brother — if you made him the best man at your wedding, you would assume that means you were super close. But the public was only just learning about Jean-Michel. So they're going, "Well, this is weird. Why did you fundamentally erase him from your life once you became the First Lady? Is this like the worst family feud ever?" Yeah, that seems a bit strange.
Brigitte Macron Refuses to Certify Her Identity
Here are some more weird facts. In our legal letter, we specifically asked Brigitte Macron — well ahead of today's publication — to confirm to us in writing that she, the current First Lady of France, is in fact the woman pictured in this photo. And she refused to answer our question. We've got this letter. She refused specifically to answer the question as to whether or not that was her. You see, number eight: "Is Brigitte Macron the same person pictured in the Auzière wedding photo?" No response.
And what's more interesting is that it's not the first time that she refused to answer that basic question. She also refused to provide a basic answer to that question in a court case — a defamation case against the journalist Natacha Rey. You've been hearing about this — she won a defamation case. Well, now I'm going to tell you the details of how Natacha Rey lost a defamation case. Not due to her claim that Brigitte Macron was a man or had lived as a man before transitioning — but rather by getting details wrong. By speculating.
She looked at this photo of André-Louis Auzière at the wedding, and in her mind said, "I don't think this guy ever existed." And actually, the man in that photo looks much more to her like a different guy named Louis-André — literally just flip the name. So you have André-Louis in the photo, and she thought that in that photo was actually Louis-André, who is in fact his first cousin. So she speculated — she just made that assertion: "That's not him. They're just pretending. And whoever it is, that's his first cousin." But Natacha was in fact wrong.
So the Élysée Palace called up Louis-André, had a conversation, and encouraged him to sue her for defamation, which he did. So again, I want to be very clear about what was at root in that defamation case. It was not whether or not Brigitte Macron was born a male. And I also want to be clear that that defamation case would not have taken place were it not for the intervention of the Élysée Palace promising that they would join in on the lawsuit — even though they never did.
Now, how do we know they did that? Because another journalist — another left-leaning feminist journalist named Emmanuel Anizon — who similarly wrote a book about Brigitte Macron wanting to debunk all of the rumors about whether or not Brigitte was born a man — she was the only journalist who actually penetrated through to the Auzière family. She actually spent time with that misidentified cousin, Louis-André, and he told her how it all went down. She recorded it in her book.
The story goes that the cousin — John-Louis — had a wife named Catherine Adoue. Convinced of her theory that he was actually the man in the photo, Natacha Rey contacted his wife Catherine on WhatsApp and sent a message at 3:00 a.m. in the morning. She's on to the story, she knows something is weird, and she goes with her instincts rather than the facts. She writes to this woman: "I know everything. Absolutely everything. For you, for John-Louis, for Jean-Michel." And I guess for her this was like a journalistic strategy — not really knowing everything, knowing something was wrong, but hoping that if you pretended you knew everything, that person might be forthcoming. But Catherine wasn't forthcoming. She instantly showed it to her husband and was like, "What is going on?" So her husband contacted Laurence Auzière — just reminding you, that's Brigitte's alleged firstborn daughter, who also happens to be his cardiologist — and Laurence says, "You've got to call Brigitte. You've got to call Mom, because she's thinking about filing a complaint too. This is harassment." So he does — the cousin calls up Brigitte.
Here is what he tells the journalist happened next, in his own words:
"Brigitte tells me she's sorry and that it's all her fault, that we need to press charges, and that she agrees to file a joint action. I hear Emmanuel Macron's voice in the background asking him to hurry up because they must leave. Before hanging up, she promises to send me a copy of her family record book, which she didn't. I also asked her to certify in writing that it was her in the 1974 wedding photo with André, which she didn't. I did not speak to her directly on the subject after that."
So again, he says she's like, "Yeah, file — I'm going to file with you, do this." And he's like, "Well, could you send me just in writing — obviously this will be proof, get these people in trouble — just say you are certifying that that's you in the wedding photo." And the Élysée Palace says no, or goes cold afterwards.
He makes good on his side of the deal. He files a complaint against Natacha Rey. He sends documents to Brigitte's lawyers. Brigitte then calls him back and says, "You know what, actually the palace is recommending that we file our actions separately." Here's what John-Louis says happens next:
"She told me that the Élysée preferred to launch two separate actions. She was walking out on me. It clearly meant: if you want to continue, you're on your own. Get a lawyer of your own. We had already filed a complaint — there was no turning back. So we went ahead on our own. Since then, when I tried to call Brigitte back, I don't get through to her but to her secretary, who has become unreachable."
So long story short, the First Lady played him. She got him all fired up and said, "File, we're going to file with you," and he's like, "Okay, can you certify?" And nope. They were manipulated and then they were betrayed by the presidential couple. The journalist recounts that you can definitely tell that he's a bit stung — that the Auzières felt a bit stung by that.
Very strange again. Such an easy thing to certify. But what Brigitte really wanted was for him to go through the defamation case, for him to win the defamation case — because he actually was not the man pictured in that wedding photo — and then for her and her husband to be able to publicize in the newspapers: "We won a defamation trial against the crazy journalist who said that Brigitte was born a man." Oh well, Brigitte just won a defamation case. You keep hearing that she won, she's won defamation cases pertaining to this. That is how they are doing it — going after the details, but not the substance of what people are investigating.
The Death of André-Louis Auzière
Now you have to understand that by now, within France, the internet was just on fire with questions. First and foremost — where the heck is the first husband? Where is André-Louis?
Well, as fate would have it, shortly after Sylvie Bamel publishes her book looking into the matter, on October 8th, 2020, suddenly Tiphaine — the second daughter — announces in a weekly magazine that actually her dad already died a year ago, in 2019. People are starting to press, and now she's like, "Actually, he's dead. He died a year ago." Here is the quote that was published in Paris Match: Tiphaine said, "My father died. I buried him on December 24th, 2019, in the strictest privacy."
How convenient. How convenient, right? Like, I don't know — the First Lady's first husband, who everybody's starting to look into, just drops dead right at the moment where people realize something's going on here. I would say it's remarkably convenient for the Macron family.
Also, by the way — this is kind of weird — but Tiphaine announcing her dad's death in that Paris Match magazine, which we know is controlled to some degree by Mimi Marchand, it's one of the places where she gets particular photos and storylines published. Well, what's even stranger is that Tiphaine got the details wrong about her dad's death. He was not buried at all — he was cremated. And his cremation date was not on the 24th as she said, but four days later, on December 28th. How odd. Maybe the journalist just made a mistake. Another weird coincidence happening in this never-ending saga.
Now, how do we know the actual dates? Well, let's go back to that first cousin — remember, that first cousin who is not very happy with this family. André-Louis felt that he had been burned by the presidential couple in filing this suit. So he opened up to the journalist Emmanuel Anizon about the funeral service.
Apparently, the story goes that he had received a call from André's sister — again, this is his first cousin — informing him of the death and that there was going to be a quick funeral. He provided the journalist with the booklet that was actually distributed at this very quick funeral. And I will tell you, it is a very odd choice for an obituary photo. Here it is — André Auzière — at a ceremony taking place on December 28th, 2019. I mean, who would announce this a year after? It's just crazy. And then at the bottom there: "Our friend, our brother, our companion, our grandfather, and our Papa."
Now, even for a far-left journalist who is not prone to conspiracy theories — even for Emmanuel Anizon — it seemed to her to be a very weird choice of photo for a death announcement. So she asked him flat out: "This is weird. What's going on with this choice of a photo?" And the cousin, John-Louis, replied to her and said:
"I think this was the only photo that turned up when they went looking for one for the funeral, because all of the others had been destroyed."
Emmanuel Anizon muses: "I am not Natacha Rey, but I am still a bit puzzled. What — so all that's left for a man's life in pictures, apart from his wedding photo, is a photo of him in a swimsuit to illustrate his final departure?" She asks in her book: yeah, somehow every other photo from his life had been destroyed.
Okay. So you're probably wondering what the heck is going on here.
Well, Xavier Poussard was actually able to trace the real André-Louis through banking records. It turns out that he never worked at Crédit du Nord — that bank — which is why so many other journalists were effectively chasing their tails. So he gives that information to Emmanuel Anizon, because she's much more of a mainstream journalist and she might be able to pick up some more. He also provides her with access to a Facebook group — he's like, "No, this man did exist" — and it's filled with John-Louis's old work colleagues from the bank that he actually worked at. He's helping her to assuage her suspicions and doubts that this man possibly never even existed.
Here is how Emmanuel Anizon concludes the chapter of her research into Brigitte's first husband André-Louis Auzière. She wrote:
"His sisters wouldn't talk to me, nor his children. So I called a few former colleagues via Facebook groups of former bankers. They all speak enthusiastically of 'Dédé' — kind, cultured, polite, who talked a lot about his children whom he adored. Dédé, who smoked too much, whom they felt was lonely, devastated. One of them sent me a professional collection of portraits from the mid-2000s where André poses, serious in a suit and tie, among his colleagues at the Amiens bank branch. The 1974 groom is clearly recognizable, even if he has started to lose his hair. These colleagues kept in touch with each other after retirement, but not him — who cut all ties with them too. André Auzière has disappeared from the radar's scope. For my part, I tried to contact members of the Auzière family, but no one wanted to reply. Susan Spray, John-Louis Auzière's first wife, even hurriedly hung up the phone on me when I told her I was interested in Brigitte Macron."
John-Louis, who attended the funeral, tells her that it took place just four days after the death. No information had leaked to the newspapers. The Élysée Palace wanted it to happen quickly, and it seems that Emmanuel Macron was personally involved in making sure that it did. The express funeral, organized hastily and in a hurry, early in the morning at 8:30 a.m. — before opening time — to avoid journalists. The booklet with the photo was placed on the chairs. A dozen people were present, seated in separate clans: on one side, André's sisters; on the other, Brigitte's three children — Tiphaine, Laurence, and Sébastien. Brigitte Macron did not attend. André's companion — I guess this means like a partner, maybe someone he was in a relationship with but never married — unknown to all, was also there, at some distance. After 20 minutes, the ceremony was over and everyone walked out immediately. Afterwards, John-Louis went with the Auzière children and André's sisters for a coffee. Members of security staff stood on guard outside. They ended up letting them in because it was so cold. The atmosphere was heavy and everyone left quickly afterwards.
Quite the funeral. Very quick. Why is the Élysée Palace involved? Also, isn't it kind of weird that Brigitte would not, out of some basic respect, go attend the funeral of a man that she was married to for 32 years? The Élysée Palace got involved to keep it hush-hush, but they didn't attend the funeral. Does that even sound right? The father of your children, also.
And this is incredible — according to the first cousin John-Louis, at the funeral he spoke to André's partner, who told him that he had found tickets to Africa in André's jacket pocket, plus a large amount of money. He said: "He had emptied his accounts, organized his departure on the sly. He dreamed so much of going to Africa."
Again. Okay. All right, guys. What are we to make of that?
It is very weird for someone's lover, companion, partner — whatever you want to call it — to say that. What really happened to André-Louis, who was cremated very quickly even though his daughter accidentally says he was buried? What really happened to André-Louis? What drove him to become a recluse all of a sudden, not associating with his former bank friends from the 70s? How did all of those photos of him suddenly get destroyed? He's only left with two photos — here's me at the wedding, and here's me on a beach in my trunks. These are the only photos available of my life. Doesn't that seem like a systematic destruction? I can't think of any circumstance where that would be the case — that photos would just all be gone.
Did he actually die? Did he escape with the assistance of the Élysée Palace? Did he try to escape but the Élysée Palace intervened? Imaginations can certainly run wild right now. We can't confirm anything obviously.
What I can tell you is that oddly enough, another journalist named Sophie Deschamps-Deart reported in a 2022 issue of Paris Match that André-Louis ended his days in a psychiatric clinic with a guard at his door, supervised by Alexandre Benalla — he's a very controversial figure, the Élysée's notorious and controversial security chief of staff, who ended up in a huge scandal known as the Benalla Scandal. Why would that journalist say that? I can tell you that that information was instantly denied the same day on Twitter by Tiphaine. But despite the family being extremely litigious in nature — always going after people for defamation — the Macrons never did sue that journalist for defamation.
I think that's a perfect place for us to pause, because that's a lot of information and a lot of pieces that you have to put together.
Reflections and Audience Questions
For those of you that thought that I fell into a hole — I didn't. We have been so crazed because we were working on our book launch.
In terms of this information that I'm giving you, it is all going to be cited and sourced in Xavier Poussard's forthcoming book, which we will be able to purchase I think sometime next week. He is a methodical creature — his method is incredible. He was obsessive about this case. He dedicated years of his life and has given up so much. Truly a journalist that has gone out of style and out of fashion — a journalist committed to the truth by any means necessary, and willing to give up a lot for it. He really has given up so much. So it's a very exciting time.
I'm going to look at some of your questions. I hope that everything that I gave you is clear. It's why we had to make this a series — you can only digest so much at a time. You know what I mean? It's just crazy. You're like, "Oh, the mom is also involved in transgender stuff, and this and that." It's the gaslighting of the public, for me. The way that they gaslight us and pretend there's nothing there. "Oh, he's just above board — Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte are above board." Like, are you insane? What is the media entity that will literally have you hate people that are trying to shed light, and adore people who are covering our world in such darkness?
Anyway, getting to your comments.
Autumn Coffee writes: "Coincidence that every single world leader is soulless and spineless. We accidentally learned of Epstein. Imagine what we don't know. Do you think anyone will save the world? Would you consider running for office?"
Guys, I hate to tell you, but there is an Epstein connection in this story — we just haven't gotten to it yet. You know, Epstein was Mr. International, and that's why I said there are global considerations for what is happening in France right now. It is all connected. And yeah, so you're jumping ahead, Autumn Coffee.
Carrie writes: "I am hooked on the story. Just ordered your book too. Thank you so much. Please hire the composer for this docu-series that was fired because he was mean to Taylor Swift. I feel like dramatic music to your WTF moments would be epic."
I promise you that composer is so famous and so great. I went through his Instagram — there's no way I can afford him. Maybe if this book sells three trillion copies. Okay, so get on that, guys.
Also, I think it would be cool if Justin Baldoni dropped his version of the movie that we never got to see and called it like "Justin's Version" — a little petty nod to Taylor Swift's "Taylor's Version," like her owning her masters. He just owns his masters. But he would never do that because he's too nice.
Sticky Bork writes: "I started following you six years ago. I will follow you wherever you go. Love you, Candace. Love from the Faroe Islands." Amazing. Thank you so much. It has been amazing to see how many people from around the world we have been able to pull into this discussion.
Thank you to Silvia who just writes: "You're a boss." Thank you so much.
Irrelevant writes: "You are relevant — don't call yourself irrelevant. God's warriors for Candace. Make our families safe again."
Arcadia Dark Matter writes: "From a French nationalist — a sort of 'Make France Great Again' — keep the faith, Candice." Thank you, thank you, guys. And I believe in nationalism. I really do. I think right now we are suffering from the curse of globalism. A lot of shadows in the dark that don't really care about us as individuals and don't really care about what happens to us as nation states, but rather are kind of trying to turn us all into the same and making us think that we're crazy.
I mean, talking about psychiatry — it has been a psychiatric curse upon the world to routinely tell people that they're conspiracy theorists when they start noticing some very distinct patterns and have reasonable questions about it. And this whole era of legal abuse — sending legal letters — it's so out. I am telling you, it is so out. Because this is all they know. When they lie and get caught doing something wrong, it's like, "I'm just going to launch a lawsuit." And that era is coming to an end. I really do believe that era is really over. It's backwards thinking. Do the right thing, tell the truth, and be bold, and I think that you will be rewarded in the end.
This one is from Little Light: "Candace Owens, I hope you don't mind me sharing something vital with the sea of people here in your comment section. If you truly want to understand what the mark of the beast is and what a beast represents in the Bible, then I highly recommend From America to Babylon: Making the Mark." That's apparently a documentary. I'm not familiar with it, but I do tend to stay away from people that are very into the Babylon theme. I think that really is something. And obviously one of the books on our book list is Hollywood Babylon, which was written by Kenneth Anger, and it really tells you about the origins of Hollywood and how dark it is and how they did want to basically create a modern Babylon. We'll get into that.
And lastly, Truth Be Told writes: "Many thought they took something from you in your season of trials. They lack creativity and will now grow in envy, realizing that you actually have it. We pity them and love all of this for you. Keep on journalizing us."
Thank you so much. Yeah, last year was definitely a lot of trials, a lot of hardships. But I never, ever, ever for a single second doubted that I was doing the right thing, because you just have to continue to tell the truth. And like I said, the old systems are failing — the smearing, the libels, trying to create someone into a monster when they're not. It's just the dawn of a new era, and it feels like we are all coming together. It really is about goodness fighting evil, and every single time I am going to bank on goodness. Because well — Christ is King.