Dominique de Villepin, usually discreet about his private life, did not hesitate to make intimate confidences about his children in the Guillaume Pley show. Does the ex-Prime Minister, often quoted as a presidential potential, regrets as a father?
Dominique de Villepin was Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior and even obtained foreign lawyers, but his most important role is that of father. The 71 -year -old politician has made rare secrets about his children and his family life, in the show Legendfrom Guillaume Pley.
Dominique de Villepin: What is her children doing? “What I did better in my life …”
Dominique de Villepin is full of praise for her children, Marie, 39, Arthur, 37, and victory, 35 years old. “”They are what I did better in my life“, He said, smiling, before adding: “I managed to send them the inheritance that had been transmitted to me, my passions. It is wonderful to be able to share with them the passion for art, literature, world, travel …”
But what has become of his children, born from his former union with the sculptor Marie-Laure Le Guay, whom he divorced in 2011? “Marie, the elder, is a painter. And quite exceptional in the generosity of her temperament, of her desire to create, to share. My second child, Arthur, is in Hong Kong, he undertook in many fields and he directs an art gallery in Hong Kong. It has a very independent, very original temperament “, he explained about his elders, both “animated by the passion of art“.
As for the youngest, victory, it has taken a completely different path: “She did HEC. She chose the life of the business. She started in the United States, in New York, and she has just returned to France. She is singular enough to stay away, each time, of everything related to politics“.
Dominique de Villepin, frank on his regrets with his children: “We miss a lot …”
Dominique de Villepin’s family life has also been punctuated by many trips, especially when her children were young. In 1984, he was appointed to Washington, the first secretary at the French Embassy and therefore lived in the United States with his family for several years, before living in New Delhi, India, where he took on the role of advisor at the French Embassy.
But the politician does not regret these moves, on the contrary: “Life abroad tightens a family, it leads to being even closer to each other in an extremely demanding form of affection“However, he would have liked to be more present for his children:”We miss a lot of vacation, important moments like birthdays. This is undoubtedly what is most difficult, this is where we blame ourselves “.
If it had to be redone, Dominique de Villepin would also have been less demanding with her elder, Marie. “”My daughter often tells me that the first is the one who wipes the plasters (…) We are often harder with the elder. Those who come after benefit from the experience we have had, being more understanding, more accessible“, He said.
