She was 16 when she met Laurent Tapie, with whom she married and had their children. So when Marie Griessinger-Tapie talks about her father-in-law, it’s from the inside.
Lurking like Bernardwhich brings together “shared moments, from the most comical to the most serious”, “without pretense or concessions”, comes out on October 3 from Presses de la Cité. A work which was visibly approved during his lifetime by the main interested party, as we learn in the presentation which evokes the question asked by the writer to her father-in-law: “Bernard, will you let me write a book about you, one day… You look at me, taken aback. I continue: -… without changing everything behind…? – Obviously. »
The one who has nurtured over time a great bond with the businessman of a thousand lives has resumed her diary “with the hindsight of three years of mourning”, presents the 4th cover to “invite faithful friends and singular witnesses to to evoke their Bernard or their Tapie”.
Invincible
On the set of C to youthe author spoke about her unique father-in-law who died in 2021. “With hindsight, we realize that despite all the faults that he carried around like a brass band that heckled him, he had a very human background”, she explains.
Moreover, on the family side, she is well placed to say: “he was an extraordinary father, grandfather and father-in-law”. “For thirty years, I had a stepfather who was there for everything. For my children, for my parents when they were sick,” she continues.
This displayed strength could be deceptive and suggested that he was invincible. “Bernard Tapie was a pillar for his family who, until the end, did not believe in his disappearance,” explains Marie Griessinger-Tapie. “We were absolutely not prepared, neither emotionally nor administratively. We found ourselves without him overnight. »
“He was someone who was excessive in everything, but who we could count on,” she concludes about the man who now rests in Marseille, where he will forever be the Boss.
