Which public funerals has Brigitte Macron attended in 2025 and who accompanied her?
Executive summary
Brigitte Macron attended at least two public funerals in 2025 that are documented in available reporting: Pope Francis’s funeral in Vatican City on April 26, 2025, where she was seated alongside President Emmanuel Macron [1] [2], and the funeral of French TV figure Thierry Ardisson in Paris on July 17, 2025, where Getty Images captions record her presence [3] [4]. Available sources also show she participated in national ceremonial events that year (Bastille Day) and privately mourned family losses, but they do not provide comprehensive, single-source lists of every funeral she attended in 2025 [5] [6].
1. Funeral at the Vatican: a front-row state appearance
Brigitte Macron attended the funeral mass for Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square on April 26, 2025, and she was publicly seated with President Emmanuel Macron in the front rows among other heads of state and royalty — an appearance covered in fashion and international press photo galleries (WWD) and illustrated in roundups of leaders at the service [1] [2]. Photographs and reportage place the Macrons together near other prominent figures, underscoring that this was an official, diplomatic attendance rather than a private family funeral [1] [2].
2. Thierry Ardisson’s funeral: documented presence in Paris
Image agencies recorded Brigitte Macron at the funeral of television presenter Thierry Ardisson at Église Saint‑Roch on July 17, 2025, with Getty Images listing that date and event among its catalogued photographs [4] [3]. Those image captions are the available source evidence for her attendance; the photo agency record is the primary public documentation cited by media aggregators [4] [3].
3. Other funerals and ceremonies: partial and scattered reporting
Reporting shows Brigitte Macron attended national ceremonial events in 2025 such as the Bastille Day parade on July 14, where she accompanied the president, but accessible sources do not provide a consolidated list of every funeral she attended that year [5]. Hola and other outlets report she participated in family mourning and attended a family funeral in Amiens in mid‑2025, but those pieces mix private grief with public appearances and do not enumerate all public funerals nationwide [6].
4. Who accompanied her: husband prominently present; other escorts unlisted
When Brigitte Macron attended state-level funerals, she appears alongside President Emmanuel Macron — explicitly documented at the Vatican funeral [1] [2]. For the Thierry Ardisson service and other Paris events, available photo captions show her presence but the reporting does not always state who accompanied her at every service beyond photographers’ frame descriptions [4] [3]. Available sources do not mention other consistent official escorts or aides in public lists of attendance.
5. What the sources cover — and what they don’t
Photo agencies and fashion outlets supply the clearest public record of Brigitte Macron’s visible appearances at funerals in 2025 [1] [4] [3]. Major news roundups of international funerals list world leaders present and name the Macrons at Pope Francis’s funeral [2]. However, available reporting does not present a comprehensive registry of every public funeral she attended in 2025; it names select high‑profile events and documents image captions rather than exhaustive schedules [5] [6]. Therefore, any claim about “all” funerals attended that year is not supported by the provided sources.
6. Context and competing perspectives
Media coverage of Brigitte Macron in 2025 is shaped by two overlapping narratives in the sources: one that treats her appearances as part of state protocol and international diplomacy (Vatican funeral, Bastille Day) and another that focuses on personal bereavement and intense online harassment she faced that year (family losses and legal battles over defamation and cyberbullying) [1] [5] [6] [7]. Photo‑led pieces (Getty, WWD) emphasize attire and optics at funerals, while news outlets highlight diplomatic placement and legal/ personal context. Available sources do not attempt to reconcile every anecdote into a single chronology.
Limitations: This account uses only the supplied sources; they provide confirmed evidence for the Vatican and Thierry Ardisson funerals and for Brigitte Macron’s presence at national ceremonies and family mourning, but they do not offer a complete list of all funerals she attended in 2025. If you want a more exhaustive, date‑by‑date roster of public funerals she attended, further reporting or an official Élysée schedule would be required — not found in current reporting (not found in current reporting).