If Dominique de Villepin officially withdrew from political life, the former Prime Minister has made a media return noted in recent months. And, now, it is quoted among the presidential people of 2027! During his life, he experienced a terrible personal drama.
At 71, Dominique de Villepin will he embark on the presidential race? If he has not yet been officially candidate, he has been all media trays lately. As recently in Legendon Youtube. With Guillaume Pley, he agreed to come back to the drama of his life: the brutal death of his brother Eric, two years his elder, occurred in 1971.
Dominique de Villepin faced with the death of his brother: “At birth, he did not shout …”
Eric de Villepin, epileptic from an early age, died of a heart attack, in his bathtub, at the age of 19. A drama to which Dominique de Villepin attended in the most total helplessness while the two brothers returned from a outing at sea. “He had been epileptic since childhood. In fairly special circumstances because as always in these diseases, we wonder about the reasons”therefore first explained the former Prime Minister.
“All my childhood, I heard my mother and grandmother repeat this sentence that froze my blood every time: ‘at birth, he did not shout.’ As it was done at the time in Algeria, my mother gave birth at home, with irons, with forceps. And we think that his head was able to hit one of the irons at birth, which posed a problem of circulation and irrigation of the brain at this time … “
Dominique de Villepin and his relationship to death: “Be the height of what we want to be”
Questioned about the traces of such a drama, Dominique de Villepin confessed to him “The voice of a loved one, the gaze of a loved one”. And the one who became the father of three children – Marie, Arthur and victory – to add: “It is a requirement that also leads you to draw the wires. I was very young had a passion for poetry. We have nourished this passion for words together (…) and therefore, this companionship that I had the chance to be able to bind with my brother, going to the end of his way, it remained like a duty. “
What is the relationship with the death of the politician today? “It has changed a large part of what makes the mystery of death, the passage, the crossing of the passage. And then, above all, the idea that you have to live with this idea, know that you must also think about your life at the end. And it is not something that we discover at the last moment (…) What makes the price of life is that it ends. Which must be a permanent incentive to live our lives better (…) This therefore forces us to be the height of what we want to be “, he concluded.
