Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (; born 30 June 1950) is a French doctor and professor of neurology at the University of Picardy. He is the father of French President Emmanuel Macron.
Early life Jean-Michel Macron was born in 1950. His father was André Macron (1920–2010), a railway executive, and his mother was Jacqueline Macron (1922–1998), née Robertson, of half English origin.Boucher, Laurent (26 April 2017). « Sur les traces de l'arrière-grand-père d'Emmanuel Macron, entre Amiens et Arras », La Voix du Nord (in French). Retrieved 16 May 2017.Collina, Aude (8 May 2017). « Dans le berceau des Macron au lendemain de l'élection », Le Courrier Picard (in French). Retrieved 27 June 2017. He wrote a thesis on feline neurology in 1981.
Career
Macron is a professor of neurology at the University of Picardy, specializing in sleep disorders and epilepsy.
Macron has published in academic journals such as Neuroscience Letters, Brain Research, NeuroReport and Neurosurgery on sneezing in cats. Macron has 26 publications as author or co-author in the PubMed database.
Personal life Jean-Michel Macron was first married to Françoise Noguès, a physician based in Amiens. She is the daughter of Jean Noguès and his wife Germaine Noguès (née Arribet, died 2013), both teachers. The first child of Jean-Michel and Françoise Macron died as an infant. They then had three children: Emmanuel (born 1977; the current President of France), Laurent (born 1979), and Estelle (born 1982).
After the divorce of Jean-Michel and Françoise Macron, Jean-Michel Macron married Hélène Joly, a psychiatrist at the Centre Hospitalier Philippe Pinel in Dury, Somme.
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