When video surfaced Monday morning of Brigitte Macron appearing to forcefully shove the face of her husband, French President Emmanuel Macron, as they arrived in Vietnam, the shocking moment was just the latest in a relationship that has been fraught with scandal. The head of state was just 15 years old — the age of consent in France — in 1993 when he met Madame Brigitte Auziere, a 39-year-old high school teacher, at the Catholic Lycee La Providence in Amiens, where he was also a classmate of her eldest daughter, Laurence. Brigitte’s family found out about the affair in the summer of 1994 after they caught the two of them sunbathing around the pool at the home of the teacher’s aging parents, according to a biography of France’s first lady called “Brigitte Macron: An Unfettered Woman” by Maelle Brun. The relationship between the straight-A student and his literature and drama teacher caused an uproar. Locals sent anonymous letters to the headquarters of the storied chocolate and macaron factory run by Brigitte’s family denouncing the affair. At the time, Brigitte was married to banker Andre-Louis Auziere, with whom she shared three children. Auziere took the news of his wife’s infatuation with the teenager “like a slap in the face,” according to Bruns. Their subsequent divorce dragged out for a decade. During that time, Emmanuel eventually left Amiens to spend his last year at a prestigious Paris high school in Paris, but distance didn’t dampen the passion he and Brigitte had for each other. The couple eventually married in the autumn of 2007, the year Brigitte’s divorce was finally finalized. He was 29. She was 54. After the wedding, the couple focussed on Emmanuel’s burgeoning political career. Brigitte would eventually quit her job as a teacher to work as her husband’s main consultant when he became finance minister in the government of Francois Hollande in 2014. In 2017, at age 39, Emmanuel was elected the President of France, becoming the country’s youngest leader ever. 📸: Getty - @nypost