Emmanuel Macron's Unconventional Candidacy Stems From An Unconventional Life
The French presidential candidate has always gone against convention, his biographer notes. He married his high school drama teacher and entered the political fray as a little-known outsider.
"Emmanuel Macron was never a kid like the others," says French journalist Anne Fulda, who has just written a biography about the presidential contender titled Emmanuel Macron, un jeune homme si parfait, translated as "a young man so perfect."
Macron loved to read and existed slightly in his own world, she says. He always felt at ease and mixed easily with adults. Macron's most formative relationship growing up was with his grandmother.
"He had a very special link with her because he saw her every day when he was a small kid," says Fulda. "Even when he was a banker at Rothschild, he spoke to her every day. But
