Brigitte Macron said her time as first lady of France has made her more cynical about the world in a bleak reflection as her husband announced he would step back from politics after next year’s presidential election.
Ms Macron, 73, told French newspaper La Tribune Dimanche that the public-facing job at the top of French politics had left her “sometimes sadder than I have ever been”, having exposed her to the “darkness of the world, the stupidity, the wickedness”.
