In addition to his return to “DALS”, Jean-Marc Généreux also published “Each step is a life lesson”. A book in which he returns to his daughter’s genetic disease, Francesca. For her, he spent without counting in order to develop his house near Montreal.
The whole of France discovered it in 2011 in one of the flagship programs of TF1: Dance with stars. And since then, Jean-Marc Généreux has made a place in the hearts of the French. A real star of the small screen, the 62 -year -old dancer and choreographer with a smile always displayed on the face experienced a family drama: his daughter’s rare disease, Francesca.
Jean-Marc Généreux, father of a disabled child “now locked in a body that stops growing “
Married to France Mousseau, the popular Jean-Marc Généreux is the happy father of two children: Jean Francis, 28, and Francesca, 26. A heavily disabled girl he pays tribute to Each step is a life lesson. A 26 -year -old, the young woman suffers from Rett syndrome, a genetic disease that mainly affects girls and that causes mental handicap and serious motor attacks.
A pathology that started in the family’s youngest at the age of twenty months, when she had already started talking and walking. “It is a heartbreak to lose a child who is alive”said the living room dancer in the pages of Paris Match Last February. “The little dozen words she has acquired – mom, dad, baby, comforter … – is gradually disappearing. The last word that her little voice will pronounce is ‘dad’ (…) She is now locked in a body that stops growing”he then explained by opening the doors of his house to our colleagues.
Jean-Marc Généreux made a house adapted to the needs of his daughter
Located about 20 km from Montreal, in Boucherville, a small village bordered by the St. Lawrence River, the large house of Jean-Marc Généreux is completely adapted to the needs of his daughter. Multiplying contracts on television, in France, Canada and even in the United States, Jean-Marc Généreux was thus able to “Having a tailor -made house in the suburbs of Montreal, meeting their needs, between medical imperatives and entertainment bubbles: two salons, one for their daughter and her cartoons, the other for her brother and hockey matches, and a medical room in front of the parental suite, to intervene as soon as possible when an epilepsy crisis occurs in the middle of the night.”
In the basement of this house full of light, we also find “A dance hall, a billiards, and a home cinema“. A real haven of peace for the television man, far from the rhinestones and glitter. But to pay for such a home, Jean-Marc Généreux must work, a lot. And thus get away from his family. Which makes him consider perhaps slowing down the pace in 2026.
