On the occasion of the release of the book The last secrets of the lady in the hat (Ed. Vérone), Tuesday June 25, 2024, its author, Hubert Guérin, last collaborator of Geneviève de Fontenay, spoke in the columns of
Gala. For many years, he was by her side and was close to her.
So, he spoke about the daily life of the lady in the hat in her apartment located in Saint-Cloud. “She ate very little and was extremely careful about her figure. She was a woman who was always made up, always chic, always elegant. Until the last month of her life, she wore her 8 cm pumps“, he explained initially.
Geneviève de Fontenay would never have rolled into gold
“She did everything alone, she always kept this artisanal side despite the media and television empire that she built. She was adored by some of the French, and at the same time, she had the problems of an octogenarian. Sometimes I went to see her, she was in her nightgown, she didn’t have her bun, she was natural. There was a sort of dichotomy between Geneviève, the intimate woman, and Geneviève de Fontenay, the media character.”
Concerning her finances, many things have been said about the state of Geneviève de Fontenay’s accounts. Hubert Guérin assured that she had never rolled into gold.
“She died with very little money in her bank account. The money she earned from the sale of Miss France, she gave it back to Xavier“, he declared again.
Geneviève de Fontenay’s main expenses were food and telephone
“His only expenses were food and the phone. She kept the line of the Miss France committee thanks to a waiver from France Télécom which was kind enough to keep the line for Geneviève de Fontenay. So she paid an astronomical price. In her shopping, there was always a rosé cider, because that was the drink with which she had met Louis. His biggest expense was maintaining his hats.accessories essential to its notoriety“, said the one who was one of his close friends.
Concerning the apartment in which she lived, it was emptied a few weeks after her death.
