Did you know that Alain Souchon grew up in a castle? The singer, now 81 years old, lived part of his life in a beautiful building in Loir-et-Cher…
Alain Souchon was born in Morocco, then lived in Switzerland until he was seven before moving to Paris with his family. And he also spent part of his childhood playing between the stone walls of the Château de Chémery, in Loir-et-Cher, which belonged to his mother, the novelist Madeleine Lemaître.
Alain Souchon: this sumptuous castle where he lived
In Center-Val-de-Loire, there is an imposing building steeped in history, inhabited for centuries by the noble La Roche-Aymon family, in which Alain Souchon spent part of his childhood. The Château de Chémery belonged to his mother, the author of novels Madeleine Lemaître, until the beginning of the 80s. It was also there that the singer composed his first album, I am ten years old.
But it was ultimately the artist’s childhood friend, an architect named Axel Fontaine, who decided to buy the castle from Alain Souchon’s mother in order to renovate it, without ever getting rid of the piano that belonged to the singer. Sentimental crowd. The object still sits in the central room, according to France 3 Centre-Val-de-Loire. Some sketches from the famous series A guy, a girl with Jean Dujardin and Alexandra Lamy were even filmed there in the early 2000s.
Today, the architect’s daughter, Cécile Fontaine, a graduate of Fine Arts in Tokyo, has established her painting studio in the building’s outbuildings and sometimes opens it to the public for exhibitions. And part of the castle is open to visits between March and December.
Where does Alain Souchon live? His huge apartment in Paris and his second homes
As for Alain Souchon, he now owns a house located not far from the castle, in Ouchamps-les-Montils, in Loir-et-Cher. “I really like walking between Ouchamps and Cheverny“, confided to the local daily Little Solognot the one who has just completed a tour with his sons Pierre and Charles. And when he is not in this corner of France, he likes to spend time in his large 200 m2 apartment in Montparnasse in Paris, where the “light is dim“and the”minimal decor” according to Release.
Finally, the one who has shared the life of Françoise Villechevrolle for almost 60 years also has a residence in Brittany at Trinité-sur-Mer, not far from Quiberon where her faithful friend Laurent Voulzy resides. “My wife and I bought a house in La Trinité (…) twenty years ago. We are 20 meters from the sea and, at the same time, away from the customs path, we are quiet. We have a big fireplace“, he explained to Femina version.
