Brigitte Macron, the wife of France's President Emmanuel Macron, looks on at the Elysee Palace in Paris on March 27. Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images Paris —

The daughter of French first lady Brigitte Macron told a Paris court on Tuesday that her mother now suffers from “deep anxiety” because of false claims about her gender.

Tiphaine Auzière, 41, said it was important for her to testify at the trial, at which ten people are accused of online harassment of the 72-year-old first lady for spreading what prosecutors described as “malicious comments” about her gender and sexuality.

“There isn’t a single week when she isn’t harassed, not one person in her personal or professional life fails to bring up these allegations,” Auzière said.

She described how her mother is constantly havin

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