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Brigitte Macron’s nasty little words

Non-French speakers don’t fully understand the phrase “sales connes”. But we do, which makes the president’s wife using it even more awful

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Insult filmed, excuse calibrated: around Brigitte Macron, the polemic "dead bastards" serves as a smokescreen, to disqualify those who disturb the established order and relegate much more disturbing accusations to the background.

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The wife of the French president had called the feminists of the collective #We all ...

·Brussels, Belgium
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By JOHN LEICESTER PARIS (AP) — France’s first lady defended her use of a sexist slur to criticize feminist protesters, saying the comments were “clumsy” but made in private when “I didn’t see that someone behind me was filming.” Speaking to the online news outlet Brut, Brigitte Macron acknowledged in a video interview released Monday night that her language had been “very direct.” But she said she had tried to reassure French actor Ary Abittan w…

·United States
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Since the release of a video toured behind the scenes of Ary Abittan's show, in which Brigitte Macron declared "the dirty cunts, we will throw them out" by talking about feminist activists who had disrupted a representation of the humorist, the president's wife had been widely criticized. She decided to respond in a video broadcast by the online media Brut, in which she explained herself without apologizing.

·Paris, France
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In an interview with the media Brut, the First Lady goes back for the first time on the polemic she provoked by insulting feminist activists. If she says that she "can't regret to speak", Brigitte Macron says "sorry" for having been able to "injure the women victims". - "Sales connes" : Brigitte Macron says "sorry" if she "damaged the women victims" (Topics of society).

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A mea culpa, but... Almost a week after the controversy, Brigitte Macron apologized. The First Lady said she was "sorry" if she "injured the women victims."Brigitte Macron had called "sacred" feminist activists who had interrupted a comedy show by Ary Abittan, who had been accused of rape but had been dismissed.Interviewed by the media Brut, the First Lady said "understand" that her remarks might have been shocking, stating that they were "absol…

·Paris, France
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mariefrance.fr broke the news in on Monday, December 15, 2025.
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