Likely France next president, Emmanuel Macron actually told his 64-year old wife he would marry her at just 17!

Before you be thinking what would make a man marry a woman that is almost twice as old as he is, think of the popular phrase, "Love is Blind." 

Oh yea that seems to be the story of the man who is poised to become France's next president.

Macron on Sunday won first place ahead of National Front leader Marine Le Pen in the first round of the country's presidential elections.

Emmanuel Macron, 39  a former banker who is married to 64-year-old Brigitte Trogneux, got into the final round of the French presidential race on Sunday without the support of either of the two major political parties.

According to report, Centre-Left candidate, Macron told his wife who was once his drama coach that he would marry her when he was just 17.

The couple first met when he was 15 and he later made a startling promise to his teacher.

At the age of 17, Emmanuel said to me, Whatever you do, I will marry you!, Miss Trogneux told Paris Match magazine last year.

The relationship started after Mr Macron acted in Miss Trogneux's theatre pieces when he was aged just 18 at a private Jesuit school in Amiens, northern France. 

And since then, everything has been rosy afterwards, even as he prepares to hit the first office of France.