Tiphaine Auzière, born on January 30, 1984 in Amiens, is a lawyer specialized in labor law, novelist, and former television columnist. The youngest daughter of Brigitte Macron and André-Louis Auzière (banker, 1951–2019), she is the youngest of three children with Sébastien and Laurence Auzière. Daughter-in-law of Emmanuel Macron since 2017, she has managed to build a career and an identity of her own, away from the family prism. In 2024, she publishes her first novel Assises and joins as a columnist for the show Touche pas à mon poste (C8). In October 2025, she testifies at the trial for the cyberbullying of her mother Brigitte Macron before the Paris criminal court. In March 2025, Paris Match reveals her relationship with Cyril Hanouna. At 42 years old in 2026, Tiphaine Auzière establishes herself as a public figure in her own right.
- Identity and Family
- Education and Academic Background
- Career as a Lawyer
- Political Engagement
- The novel Assises (2024)
- Columnist at TPMP (2024–2025)
- Personal Life
- Testimony at the Cyberbullying Trial (October 2025)
- Current Affairs 2026
Identity and Family
Tiphaine Auzière is the third child of Brigitte Trogneux (born in 1953, future Brigitte Macron) and André-Louis Auzière, a banker born in 1951 in Éséka (Cameroon), who passed away on December 24, 2019. She has two older siblings: Sébastien Auzière, a researcher in the pharmaceutical laboratory (born in 1975), and Laurence Auzière, a cardiologist (born in 1977), who was Emmanuel Macron’s classmate at La Providence high school in Amiens.
Her parents divorced on January 26, 2006. Her mother married Emmanuel Macron in October 2007. Since then, Tiphaine has maintained a close and supportive relationship with her stepfather, which she describes as sincere and unforced.
At her father’s death in December 2019, she was the one who announced his death in Paris Match in October 2020, describing André-Louis Auzière as “a nonconformist who valued his anonymity above all”. She had deliberately waited several months to preserve his memory and protect her family.
Education and Academic Background
Tiphaine Auzière completed her schooling in Amiens, obtaining her baccalaureate at La Providence high school. She began a hypokhâgne at Janson-de-Sailly high school in Paris, which she interrupted after a month to redirect her studies towards law. She enrolled at Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I), where she chose a specialization in labor law and social law, reaching a Master 2 through an apprenticeship.
In 2008, she joined the Bar School of Paris (EFB). During her studies, she completed a six-month internship as a union defender with the CFDT, starting her commitment to the defense of employees’ rights that would shape her entire professional practice.
Career as a Lawyer
Tiphaine Auzière took the oath in 2009 and began her career in Hauts-de-France, registered with the Lille bar, specializing in the defense of employees and unions. She later joined the Boulogne-sur-Mer bar, where she settled with her family.
In 2018, she co-founded the law firm Challenges Avocats in Boulogne-sur-Mer, dedicated to labor law and social law. She is registered with the Paris bar for her activities in the capital.
In September 2023, she was appointed as an independent administrator on the board of directors of the company Arverne, a French company specializing in geothermal heating, listed on the stock exchange. This nomination marks her entry into corporate governance bodies.
Her practice remains centered on labor law, the defense of employee rights, and more recently on domestic violence — a theme at the heart of her first novel.
Political Engagement
In 2016, Tiphaine Auzière created and led a support committee in Pas-de-Calais for her stepfather Emmanuel Macron’s presidential campaign. She was one of the first to publicly commit to supporting him, long before the victory of En Marche was assured.
During the legislative elections of June 2017, she ran as the substitute for Thibaut Guilluy, on the La République En Marche (LREM) label, in the 4th constituency of Pas-de-Calais against the outgoing deputy-mayor of Touquet-Paris-Plage, Daniel Fasquelle. She was present in the media to defend against a class threatened with closure in Fruges.
In 2020, she announced in Paris Match her participation in the creation of a private school outside of contract named Autrement, of which she took the presidency. The institution, located near Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague in Paris (where Brigitte Macron taught), welcomes its first students with a tuition fee of €9,500 per year (or ten times less for scholarship students), allowing for a baccalaureate in two years followed by a year of preparation for competitive exams.
The novel Assises (2024)
In 2024, Tiphaine Auzière publishes her first novel, Assises, a judicial drama directly inspired by her experience as a lawyer. The book addresses domestic violence, the workings of the French criminal justice system, and the flaws of the judicial system in facing the most vulnerable victims.
The publication is praised as a committed testimony to the realities of the courtroom, halfway between a novel and a document. Tiphaine Auzière presents her book for the first time on the set of Touche pas à mon poste in May 2024, an appearance that marks the beginning of a regular collaboration with the show.
With Assises, Tiphaine Auzière transposes to fiction the tensions experienced in courtrooms: the solitude of the victims, the heaviness of procedures, the sometimes helplessness of lawyers in the face of truths that justice cannot always hear.
Columnist at TPMP (2024–2025)
On October 9, 2024, Cyril Hanouna officially announces Tiphaine Auzière’s arrival as a weekly legal columnist on the show Touche pas à mon poste on C8. Each week, she intervenes to analyze legal and judicial news, simplify complex procedures, and comment on major ongoing cases.
Her first appearance on the show dated back to May 27, 2024, during an invitation to present Assises. She returned on October 2, 2024 to discuss the Mazan rape case.
The show Touche pas à mon poste ended definitively on March 26, 2025, marking the end of this collaboration. During the months she served there, Tiphaine Auzière established herself as a clear and educational voice on complex legal issues, reaching a very broad audience.
Personal Life
Tiphaine Auzière lived for many years with Antoine Choteau, a gastroenterologist, with whom she has two children:
- Élise, born in 2003 (sometimes indicated as 2014 according to sources — the most reliable data places her around 2003–2005)
- Aurèle, born in 2005 (or 2016 according to other sources)
The family resided in Boulogne-sur-Mer in Hauts-de-France. According to the magazine Gala, the couple’s separation occurred in early 2025, with both parents remaining on good terms for their children’s education.
In March 2025, Paris Match exclusively revealed on the cover the romantic relationship between Tiphaine Auzière and Cyril Hanouna. According to the magazine, their story began discreetly over the course of their collaboration at TPMP, with Hanouna showering her with compliments during her first appearance in May 2024. The relationship, confirmed by close sources, would have been introduced by Tiphaine to her mother Brigitte Macron, who would support her. However, subsequent public appearances — particularly during Valérie Bénaïm’s book evening in March 2026 — show the two personalities arriving separately and leaving separately, leaving the exact nature of their relationship open to interpretation.
Testimony at the Cyberbullying Trial (October 2025)
In October 2025, the trial for the cyberbullying of Brigitte Macron opens before the Paris criminal court. Ten individuals are prosecuted for having massively spread misinformation presenting her as a transgender woman and disseminating hateful messages on social networks since 2021.
On October 28, 2025, Tiphaine Auzière testifies at the bar — “as a daughter, as a woman, as a mother”. She describes a deterioration in the living conditions and health of her mother since 2021–2022, specifying that she initially underestimated the extent of the consequences, as her mother is “someone who doesn’t complain”.
She recounts how Brigitte Macron is now forced to monitor her outfits, her postures, and her photos, knowing that any image can be misused. She reads the hateful messages, Tiphaine adds, and cannot disregard them in her private or professional life.
A medical certificate from the treating physician of the First Lady has been attached to the proceedings, attesting to the impact of the messages on her state of health. The defense attorneys condemned the absence of Brigitte Macron herself at the hearing, lamenting “empty responses”. Tiphaine Auzière also confirmed having seen her uncle Jean-Michel Trogneux — whose existence some defendants deny — “a few months ago”.
Current Affairs 2026
In March 2026, Tiphaine Auzière is present alongside her sister Laurence at an event that their mother Brigitte Macron cannot attend — the latter having undergone emergency eye surgery in early March 2026.
She is also present at the premiere of Ary Abittan’s show “Authentique” at the Folies Bergère (December 7, 2025), alongside her mother and producers Gilbert and Nicole Coullier. The video filmed backstage provokes a brief scandal online.
Her career as a lawyer continues. Projects related to the adaptation of her novel Assises are being discussed. She does not rule out, according to her close ones, a more direct political engagement once her stepfather is no longer at the Élysée.
FAQ
Who is Tiphaine Auzière?
Tiphaine Auzière is the youngest daughter of Brigitte Macron and André-Louis Auzière, a banker who passed away in 2019. Born on January 30, 1984, in Amiens, she is a lawyer specialized in labor law, co-founder of the Challenges Avocats firm in Boulogne-sur-Mer. She is also the author of the novel Assises (2024) and was a legal columnist on TPMP from October 2024 to March 2025.
How old is Tiphaine Auzière?
Tiphaine Auzière was born on January 30, 1984. She is 42 years old in 2026.
Is Tiphaine Auzière in a relationship with Cyril Hanouna?
Paris Match revealed on the cover on March 19, 2025, a romantic relationship between Tiphaine Auzière and Cyril Hanouna, arising from their collaboration at TPMP. Subsequent public appearances (particularly in March 2026) show them moving separately, however. The exact nature of their relationship has not been officially confirmed by those involved.
What is Tiphaine Auzière’s novel?
Her first novel is titled Assises, published in 2024. It is a judicial drama inspired by her experience as a lawyer, focused on domestic violence and the functioning of the French criminal justice system.
What did Tiphaine Auzière say at the trial for the cyberbullying of Brigitte Macron?
On October 28, 2025, she testified at the bar to describe the deterioration of her mother’s health and living conditions since 2021–2022, linked to online harassment campaigns. She describes a mother forced to monitor each of her images, unable to disregard hateful messages in her daily life.
What are the children of Tiphaine Auzière?
Tiphaine Auzière has two children, Élise and Aurèle, with her former partner Antoine Choteau, a gastroenterologist. Their separation occurred in early 2025 according to the magazine Gala.
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