Brigitte Macron: ever present beside France's presidential hopeful

Emmanuel Macron's drama coach when he was 15 is set to break new ground by having a formal description as first lady

Last July, when Emmanuel Macron was economy minister in Franiois Hollande's government and his barely hidden presidential ambitions were dismissed as a naive fantasy by the political class, he held his first rally at a smart venue on Paris's Left Bank.

Before the crowds arrived, he took to the stage to rehearse his speech in front of a handful of volunteers from his new political movement En Marche! (On the Move), a "neither right nor left" grouping he said would revolutionise French politics. "We are the party of hope," he told the almost empty auditorium, captured by the film-maker Pierre Hurel, who was discreetly documenting his rise.