Personal Life and Career
Her parental grandfather was a Spanish Socialist which became a refugee in France after the end of the Spanish Civil War along with his wife and his four children (one of them Hidalgo's father). However, her grandparents returned to Spain some time later. Her grandmother died in the return trip and his grandfather was sentenced to death penalty, although the sentence was eventually commuted for a life sentence. Thus, Hidalgo's father was raised by his maternal grandparents. In the late 1950s he got married and had two daughters, Ana (Anne) and María (Marie). However, due to the difficult economic landscape of Spain in these years, Hidalgo's parents migrated, this time as economic immigrants, to France. They settled in Lyon in 1961, with their two daughters.
She grew up in Vaise, a quarter of Lyon, and spoke in Spanish language with her parents and in French language with her sister. Her parents are now back in Spain while her older sister, Marie, manages a company in Los Angeles, California.
Hidalgo has a Degree in Social Work and a DEA of social and trade union. She is divorced and remarried, and the mother of three children.
In 1982, she was admitted to the national fifth contest of the Inspection du travail. In 1984, she won her first post in the Inspection du travail and moved in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.
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