From
a piece in the Guardian:

Last July, when Emmanuel Macron was economy minister in François Hollande's government and his barely hidden presidential ambitions were dismissed as a naive fantasy by the political class, he held his first rally at a smart venue on Paris's Left Bank.

Before the crowds arrived, he took to the stage to rehearse his speech in front of a handful of volunteers from his new political movement En Marche! (On the Move), a "neither right nor left" grouping he said would revolutionise French politics. "We are the party of hope," he told the almost empty auditorium, captured by the film-maker Pierre Hurel, who was discreetly documenting his rise.

A voice interjected: "Your voice is falling, you need to lift your voice." Brigitte Macron, his wife, was giving him advice as a theatre director would to an actor on stage. "What's wrong darling? Are there bits that are too long?" he gently asked her about another speech. "Brigitte tells me I always go on too long," he once told a crowd.