Jean-Michel Macron | |
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Born | Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron 1950 (age 73–74) |
Nationality | French |
Known for | Professor of neurology at the University of Picardy |
Spouses |
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Children | 4, including Emmanuel |
Relatives | Brigitte Macron (daughter-in-law) |
Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ miʃɛl fʁedeʁik makʁɔ̃]; born 1950) is a French doctor and professor of neurology at the University of Picardy. He is the father of French president Emmanuel Macron.
Jean-Michel Macron was born in 1950.[1] His father was André Macron (1920–2010),[1][2] a railway executive,[3] and his mother was Jacqueline Macron (1922–1998), née Robertson, of half English origin.[3][4] He wrote a thesis on feline neurology in 1981.[5]
Macron is a professor of neurology at the University of Picardy,[6] specializing in sleep disorders and epilepsy.[7][8]
Macron has published in academic journals such as Neuroscience Letters, Brain Research, NeuroReport and Neurosurgery on sneezing in cats.[9] Macron has 26 publications as author or co-author in the PubMed database.[10]
Jean-Michel Macron was first married to Françoise Noguès, a physician based in Amiens.[11] She is the daughter of Jean Noguès and his wife Germaine Noguès (née Arribet, died 2013),[12] both teachers.[6] The first child of Jean-Michel and Françoise Macron died as an infant.[1] They then had three children: Emmanuel (born 1977, the current President of France and husband of Brigitte Macron, née Trogneux),[13] Laurent (born 1979, a radiologist and husband of Sabine Aimot, an obstetrician gynecologist),[14] and Estelle (born 1982, a nephrologist and wife of Carl Franjou, an engineer).[15][16][1][12]
After the divorce of Jean-Michel and Françoise Macron,[1] Jean-Michel Macron married Hélène Joly, a psychiatrist at the Centre Hospitalier Philippe Pinel in Dury, Somme.[17]