Emmanuel Macron: this famous animator who corrected his copies at Sciences Po!

The President of the Republic spent part of his schooling on the benches of Sciences Po Paris in the late 1990s. One of Emmanuel Macron’s former teachers, who became a television host, remembers his student very well. ..

Long before being the President of the Republic, on the initiative of the political party WorkingMinister or Deputy Secretary General, Emmanuel Macron was a studious student. Holder of a scientific baccalaureate – obtained with honors -, he is moving towards Sciences Po Paris, a symbol of the French school elite and was then predestined for a career in higher education. But the sections of studies chosen eventually push him to take a greater interest in public service and political philosophy. One of his former teachers remembered the young Macron.

“He was a very good student“

It was on the benches of the institute he attended between 1998 and 2001 that Emmanuel Macron met a certain Ali Baddou. In 1999, the latter taught political philosophy at Sciences Po, before starting a career as a journalist, first associated with the Canal group for a long time, then at France Télévisions. Received by our colleagues from Figaro in The TV Buzzthe 48-year-old host therefore confided in his period as a professor, making some indiscretions on the file of the Head of State: “He was a very good student. I had given him a 16/20 in the essay. At the time, he wondered if he was going to choose the aggregation of philosophy or go to the ENA. Then, I ran into him again on sets, but we didn’t form a friendship“, he admits. On the online section dedicated to the class of 2001 from Sciences PoAli Baddou adds: “He was the best student in my conference, but I remember above all that he loved to ask questions, to dialogue“.

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It’s been five years now that Ali Baddou has been hosting C the weeklyevery weekend, on France 5. A talk show with very satisfactory audiences (close to a million), at least enough for its duration to be extended until 8:55 p.m., since January 7, 2023. “I dreamed of it. When we saw It’s up to you last longer, gain viewers and take more time with the guests, we said to ourselves that we wanted the same thing because the show was missing, in particular a place for the debate“, explains the presenter at the microphone of the Buzz-TV.