She is most certainly the first lady who most marked the spirits. Now aged 92, Bernadette Chirac has completely withdrew from public life that she loved so much. The ex-wife of Jacques Chirac, however, still has regrets …
Bernadette Chirac has been lounging in the shade for a few years. Widowed since 2019, the former First Lady of France, still considered by many French people as the best of them, has gradually withdrew from public life. Until it completely deserted it. But did you know that she was still keeping a regret of her first lady period?
“I may not have always been enough …” : The regrets of Bernadette Chirac
At 92, she would live, according to the latest rumors, a recluse in her Parisian mansion with the help of her daughter Claude, who would visit her daily. However, Bernadette Chirac was a large accustomed to TV sets. The proof with this documentary which she had been the subject of in the year 2000. Directed by Agnès Vincent and Marion Sarraut and broadcast on France 2, he returned to one of the least known features of his personality: his great sense of humor. “You have to try not to take too much seriously”she even said journalists.
Questioned in the process of the qualities of a First Lady of France, she had revealed a regret that she kept from this period: “I may not have always been available enough for my husband with a smile, pretty cool. That is to say, take a step back from events, and always enter relaxed, always of great gaiety”.
Bernadette Chirac, not serene enough? “I have to resist”
It must be said that Bernadette Chirac was at the time not known for her bright smile. What she recognized perfectly: “A man like him needs to find in his family a counterweight to this charge which is so heavy. And I probably did not know enough to mask my own apprehension of events. It would have been very good for him to have a completely relaxed woman, exploding with joy and gaiety permanently. Who is really an object of great relaxation”.
“I tried to be serene, I tried to be serene. I am quite serene”had also announced the widow of Jacques Chirac. Laurence’s mother, who died in 2016, and Claude, had concluded: “I am the wife of the bulldozer, I have to resist”.
