Brigitte Macron’s daughter has struck up a relationship with a student 20 years her junior, in an uncanny echo of her mother’s marriage to France’s president. 

Tiphaine Auzière, 42, posted a video on Instagram showing her and 22-year-old business student Antoine Lecomte looking very much loved up while on a trip to Amsterdam.

The couple are said to have met at Le Touquet, the glamorous seaside town on France’s north-west coast, over the summer.

Mr Lecomte was working there as a kitesurfing instructor, and taught Ms Auzière how to use an e-foil – a type of electric surfboard.

A close friend of the president’s stepdaughter told the French magazine Gala: ‘It was immediately obvious between them. They have a lot in common: a love of Le Touquet and thrills, but also travel and entrepreneurship.’

Her new relationship comes after she split up with Cyril Hanouna, a controversial TV host in France, in May 2026. 

It also reported that Ms Auzière, a lawyer and politician, has introduced Mr Lecomte to her two children, 12-year-old Élise and Aurèle, ten. 

Their relationship is remarkably similar to the one between Brigitte, 73, and Emmanuel Macron, 48, a 25-year age gap. 

Tiphaine Auzière, 42, posted a video on Instagram showing her with 22-year-old business student Antoine Lecomte

Ms Auzière, a lawyer and politician, is said to have introduced Mr Lecomte to her two children

French president Emmanuel Macron and wife Brigitte Macron, who is 25 years his junior

Mr Macron, too, was a student when he met Brigitte. However, he was much younger at 15 and Brigitte was a teacher at the La Providence private school in Amiens which he was going to.

At the time Mrs Macron, then 39, was married to André-Louis Auzière, with whom she had three children. Mr Macron’s parents removed him from the school once the relationship came to light.

His mother, Francoise Nogues-Macron, told Anne Fulda, author of Emmanuel Macron: A Perfect Young Man: ‘We just couldn’t believe it. What is clear is that when Emmanuel met Brigitte, we couldn’t just say, “That’s great”.’

She added: ‘What mattered to me was not the fact he was having a relationship with Brigitte but that he was alive and there weren’t any problems.’

Macron’s father, Jean-Michel Macron, meanwhile said he ‘almost fell off his chair’ upon hearing the news.

Ms Auzière was nine when the affair between Emmanuel and her mother began. She said in 2018: ‘They were quite smitten and it was quite obvious between them and very difficult.’

Despite this, she said of their relationship: ‘If I have to give a vision of love, it’s Emmanuel and Mummy. When they are together, it is almost as if the world doesn’t exist.’

Tiphaine Auziere, daughter of French first lady Brigitte Macron (right), with president Emmanuel Macron after he is sworn in for a second term in 2022

Ms Macron and Ms Auziere at an official state dinner at the Elysee Palace in Paris in 2024

She added that she and her siblings, Sébastien and Laurence, ‘suffered as little as possible’ when her parents got divorced in 2006. 

Mr Macron and Brigitte eventually married the following year when he was 29 and she was 54. As he became a stepfather to her three adult children, he reportedly told them at the wedding reception: ‘Thanks for accepting us, a not-quite-normal couple.’

André-Louis Auzière died in 2019. Revealing the news the following year, his daughter said: ‘My father died, I buried him on December 24 in the strictest privacy. I adored him, he was a being apart, a nonconformist who valued his anonymity more than anything. He must be respected.’

Ms Macron is said to be delighted about her daughter’s new relationship. A source told Gala: ‘She reacted just like any mother would. All that matters to her is her daughter’s happiness, so she’s very happy to see her thriving. She’ll be delighted to meet Antoine.’

Ms Auzière has in the past defended her mother against what she called sexist and ageist attacks. 

Speaking in 2017, when Ms Macron was standing as a parliamentary candidate for her stepfather’s La Republique En Marche party, she said: ‘I think we cannot remain indifferent to this, and now I do not want to give any importance to people who convey this kind of stuff, because I find it totally outrageous in France in the 21st century to make such attacks.

Tiphaine Auziere and her then husband Antoine Choteau at the Elysee palace in 2017

Ms Auzière was just nine when the affair between Mr Macron and her mother began

‘These are attacks that we wouldn’t direct at male politicians or at a man who would accompany a female politician. So I think there’s a lot of jealousy, and that this is very inappropriate.’

She added: ‘On the ground, on the contrary, I meet people who admire what she does, her work, her involvement. If people have nothing else to do but criticise, let them do it, it will only bring us closer together.’

Ms Auzière separated from her former partner, gastroenterologist and hepatologist Antoine Choteau, in January 2025. 

They had been in a civil partnership since 2010, and chose not to disclose the circumstances of the break-up. They remain on good terms.

The couple had a home in both Paris and Le Touquet – where she met her new partner.