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When the age-gap between lovers is jaw-dropping

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France President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Trogneux have a 24-year age gap.

"Of course, we have breakfast together, me and my wrinkles, him with his youth...," Brigitte Macron once said in an interview with Elle France.

She and her husband, French president Emmanuel Macron, met when she was 40 and he was 15. She was his teacher. Her daughter, Laurence is his agemate, but neither that, nor the age gap, has ever fazed him, even after his parents transferred him from the school he was in when they discovered the budding, forbidden romance.

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