Pierre Perret resides in a large property with swimming pool, vegetable garden and tennis court in the countryside. The 91-year-old singer had completely renovated this place with his wife and enjoys his life in this house so much that he never leaves his home…
Pierre Perret found his paradise on earth 60 years ago. In the 1960s, while he was living in an HLM in Gennevilliers, in Hauts-de-Seine, he came across a little nugget in Nangis, 70 km from Paris. And since then, he has never left her side… to the point of almost never leaving his house!
Pierre Perret and his life in the countryside: “My wife visited around thirty houses”
It was his wife Rebecca (who died a few months ago) who unearthed this rare gem for him. “She knew that I had long wanted to live in the countryside. She visited around thirty houses. She introduced me to this one. I came, I said it’s sold“, he recalled to the Parisian.
But if this property had potential that the couple were able to detect, there was a lot of work to be done to transform it into a family cocoon. Pierre Perret and his wife got rid of the “clay floor“, added a veranda, windows and objects found at flea markets to dress up the interior and exterior, such as a red telephone box near the tennis court. “We’ve been doing this all our lives with my wife.“, he assured.
Pierre Perret, hermit: “I don’t go out anywhere anymore…”
The singer, now 91 years old, also has a swimming pool in which he swims regularly and a vegetable garden which he enjoys tending, as well as a chicken coop. But the interpreter of Lily wanted this residence to retain its family vocation and reserved his compositional work for other places, more conducive to creation. “To write, I have to be alone with what I have in the lemon that guides my pen! So I go to Normandy, without anyone or telephone” he said.
Pierre Perret, who makes no secret of having earned a good living, also owns another house in Ireland, located very close to the sea, where he likes to go for a change of scenery. The rest of the time, the artist does not leave his farm in Nangis: “I don’t go out anywhere anymore. I don’t go for walks anymore. Since 1966 and Pretty Summer Camps, it’s over“.
This father of three children, Julie and the twins Alain and Anne, leads a simple daily life, far from the trappings of the artistic world. The only famous guests he received at this property were Lino Ventura, Michel Audiard and Bernard Pivot. “But I never played the trumpet to let people know! Discretion is still part of me“, he concluded, while the former mayor of the city, Michel Billout, declared that he had only encountered him “few times“in town.
