He left 66 Minutes in June 2023 but remains on the air. Indeed, Xavier de Moulins present during the week 19:45 of M6 and officiates on the airwaves of RTL on Saturdays at 6:54 p.m. his show At the heart of creationwhere he offers to follow the journey of passionate men and women who have dedicated their lives to an art. And when he is not presenting the television news or his podcast, the 53-year-old host takes advantage of his loved ones and in particular his family, far from being unknown!
Indeed, Xavier de Moulins d'Amieu de Beaufort his real name comes from the nobility. “My family comes from the Philippines on my father's side and Montenegro on my mother's side. We can go back as far as the 13th century. It would take me a whole day to tell my family's storyhe told TV Major Channels in 2019. There were, for example, people sentenced to death, including one saved by Sissi, the empress! I could also talk about Leonardo da Vinci, Francis I and even the steppes of Genghis Khan in Mongolia!“An unusual family: Chombart de Lauwe and Cernowitz on the maternal side as well as Moulins d’Amieu de Beaufort on the paternal side.”I am the last of seven children. I have an older sister who is eighteen years older than me. There have always been lots of people around me: I grew up in the hubbub. There is a notion of clan among usadded the journalist who had cropped Emmanuel Macron. My mother has 30 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. As for my grandparents, they have a total of 247 direct line descendants. I don't even know all my cousins…“
Xavier de Moulins count… without the castle or the manor, sold by the family
Since the death of his father in 2013, Xavier de Moulins inherited the title of count. But not from the family castle. The tribe is very attached to the Chevalerie manor, located on the estate of the Château des Perrais, in Parigné-le-Pôlin, in Sarthe, a region where the family of Apolline de Malherbe is also established. This is a 15th century building where his grandmother Odette Chombart de Lauwe grew up and where his mother Marie-Hélène spent part of her childhood. As reported by our colleagues from ParisianOdette Chombart de Lauwe told “the 29 gardeners maintaining the hundred-hectare property and the giant dinners in long dresses and tuxedos“Today, only memories remain since the residence was resold. And this in two parts: the castle was ceded to the bishopric in 1946.”due to maintenance costs“, we learn in The Parisian. Then, when Odette died in 2013, Xavier de Moulins' great-uncle sold the manor to a veterinarian from Nantes. A family heritage that remains in the memories.
