Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (; born 30 June 1950) is a French doctor and professor of

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at the University of Picardy. He is the father of French president

Emmanuel Macron Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (; born 21 December 1977) is a French politician who has served as President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra since 2017. He was Ministry of Economy and Finance (France), Minister of Economics, Industr ...

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. He wrote a thesis on feline neurology in 1981.

Career

Macron is a professor of

at the University of Picardy, specializing in sleep disorders and epilepsy. Macron has published in academic journals such as '' Neuroscience Letters'', '' Brain Research'', ''

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'' and ''

Neurosurgery Neurosurgery or neurological surgery, known in common parlance as brain surgery, is the specialty (medicine), medical specialty that focuses on the surgical treatment or rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system ...

'' on sneezing in cats. Macron has 26 publications as author or co-author in the

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database.

Personal life

Jean-Michel Macron was first married to Françoise Noguès, a physician based in

Amiens Amiens (English: or ; ; , or ) is a city and Communes of France, commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme (department), Somme Departments of France, department in the region ...

. 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

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and husband of Brigitte Macron, ''née'' Trogneux), Laurent (born 1979, a radiologist and husband of Sabine Aimot, an obstetrician gynecologist), and Estelle (born 1982, a nephrologist and wife of Carl Franjou, an engineer). 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.

References

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