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Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (French: [emanɥɛl makʁɔ̃] ⓘ; born 21 December 1977) is a French politician who has served as President of France since 2017. He previously was Minister of Economics, Industry and Digital Affairs under President François Hollande from 2014 to 2016 and deputy secretary-general to the president from 2012 to 2014.
In the second round, on 24 April, Emmanuel Macron was reelected with 58.55% of the votes, a smaller margin than in his first term. He was the first president to be re-elected since 2002 . [ 183 ] [ 184 ] His second term officially began on 14 May 2022.
A macron (/ ˈ m æ k r ɒ n, ˈ m eɪ-/ MAK-ron, MAY-) is a diacritical mark: it is a straight bar ¯ placed above a letter, usually a vowel. Its name derives from Ancient Greek μακρόν ( makrón ) 'long' because it was originally used to mark long or heavy syllables in Greco-Roman metrics .
Emmanuel Macron (born 1977), president of France since 2017; Brigitte Macron (born 1953), French teacher, wife of Emmanuel Macron; Jean-Michel Macron (born 1950), French professor of neurology, father of Emmanuel Macron; Ptolemy Macron (fl. 2nd century BCE), Seleucid general and governor
The purpose of this page is not to provide encyclopedic information on French pronunciation; it is to provide a quick, easy guide for English-speakers who are not familiar with the IPA on how to understand the French IPA transcriptions they may come across on Wikipedia articles (which will link them here), for example, French: [emanɥɛl ...
Ā, lowercase ā ("A with macron"), is a grapheme, a Latin A with a macron, used in several orthographies.Ā is used to denote a long A.Examples are the Baltic languages (e.g. Latvian), Polynesian languages, including Māori and Moriori, some romanizations of Japanese, Persian, Pashto, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (which represents a long A sound) and Arabic, and some Latin texts (especially for ...
Macron also condemned Hamas, as well as its Oct. 7 attack on Israel, and recognized "the right of Israel to protect itself and react." The disputed account is the latest in a series of ...
A macron is a diacritic ¯ placed over a vowel originally to indicate that the vowel is long. When editing a Wikipedia page, macron characters appear below the edit box, and can be inserted into the edit box by clicking the appropriate character (in JavaScript-enabled browsers). A macron can also be input directly from the keyboard.