Laurence Auzière-Jourdan


Laurence Auzière-Jourdan is a French cardiologist and stepdaughter of French President Emmanuel Macron, for whom she campaigned in the 2017 French presidential election.

Early life and education

Auzière-Jourdan was born in 1977 to André-Louis Auzière, a banker, and Brigitte Trogneux. Her family lived in Truchtersheim, a French city near the German border, until 1991. She was a classmate of Emmanuel Macron at the Lycée la Providence in Amiens, France. She has an older brother, Sébastien, an engineer, and a younger sister, Tiphaine, a lawyer.
Auzière-Jourdan graduated from Pierre and Marie Curie University.

Career

Auzière-Jourdan practices high risk cardiology and vascular diseases in Vincennes and Nogent-sur-Marne. She practices with cardiologists Didier Catuli and Pierre Sablon. She has published research in cardiology, including "Facteurs échographiques associés à un niveau de BNP élevé chez les insuffisants cardiaques: interaction systole diastole. "

Political activity

During the 2017 campaign of En Marche! presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, she campaigned for him. Macron married Auzière-Jourdan's mother, Trogneux in 2007, after the two met each other when Macron was a 15-year-old student. At first, Macron's parents thought he was interested in Auzière-Jourdan, after she remarked that there was a boy in her class who "knows everything about everything" but later found out that Macron was interested in Auzière-Jourdan's mother.

Personal life

Auzière-Jourdan married Guillaume Jourdan, a radiologist practicing in Meaux.