VIDEO INTERVIEW – In “Libre à vous”, facing Guyonne de Montjou, senior reporter at Figaro Magazinethe RMC morning worker spoke like rarely before.
Is it because she started her career with an internship at Figaro or because Guyonne de Montjou has gained his trust but Apolline de Malherbe confides as rarely this Friday evening in “Libre à vous” on Le Figaro TV. In the broadcast of the journalist of Figaro Magazinethe RMC morning broadcast begins by commenting on this sentence from the poet Max Jacob: “ The flea is a tiny lobster ». « I like surrealism, we imagine the small and the large. It’s a bit like the definition of our job, knowing if we decide to zoom in or out. », she confides, while she is still alone on the set.
This formula also immediately makes him think of an old reflection of one of his sons who had one day confused a scorpion with the crustacean of the seas. His family, precisely. That of Apolline de Malherbe is a native of Sarthe and owner of the Château de Poncé, a Renaissance manor built in the 16th century and located near Marçon. Impossible not to mention his father, the painter Guy de Malherbe.
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As a child, coming home from school with her brother, she passed through his studio every day and spent hours watching him paint. Later, when she studies letters, she poses for him. “ I read a lot and remained static, which was very convenient », says the 44-year-old journalist who also appeared on the benches of Sciences Po in Paris.
Another anecdote, this time about her gallery owner mother who, only 20 years old when she became a mother, did not have time to take her for a walk in the park. So she used a curious stratagem to get around the obligation. “ She put my scarf on me, and placed me in a stroller facing the open window”reveals Apolline de Malherbe. “ I didn’t suffer that much.”she puts things into perspective. “There is an injunction made to women “, she still believes.
No computer and no office
On the sofa of the “Libre à vous” studio, the political interviewer also speaks about her job, the interview at the Grand Palais in Paris with President Emmanuel Macron one hundred days before the Olympic Games, the episode of the dissolution surprise, the constraint of equal speaking time on TV, criticism from social networks – “ we are all under surveillance », she says – and her relationship to the image.
« When you are a woman, you have an expiration date earlier than men, she judges. It’s at the same time stupid, surreal and lucid “, she summarizes. We also learn that she works exclusively on her phone. “ I don’t have a computer and no desk, I take notes throughout the day, after chatting with those around me for example. “, she says.
« He has an intelligence of speech, of maieutics that I admire”
Apolline de Malherbe towards her husband Harold Hauzy
Mother of four children and married to Harold Hauzya psychoanalyst and former advisor to Manuel Valls at Matignon, Apolline de Malherbe is less talkative and at ease when it comes to broaching this subject. Does he help him construct his interviews with Xavier Niel, François Hollande or even Yaël Braun-Pivet (his guests this week)? We won’t have the answer. She only declares with regard to the one who shares her life: “ He has an intelligence of speech, of maieutics that I admire “, she describes before praising “ his intelligence, his listening skills, his humanity and his demands ».
