Michel Drucker mourns his nanny: “She is one of the people who have marked my life”

Monday July 1, 2024, it is with a deep emotion that we learned of the death of the woman who was nicknamed “Michel Drucker’s nanny”.

Suffering from lung problems for several weeks, she had been hospitalized at the Vire Normandy hospital (Calvados) at the end of last week in order to be treated there. It was on the night of Sunday to Monday, a little after midnight that she fell asleep there for good to go and join her husband Roger, “the baron of the lock”, another emblematic personality of Vire and the lock district, which disappeared in November 2017.

Bernadette takes with her many memories accumulated over the course of a full life.

“I remember the holidays in Provence…”

At 18 years old, Bernadette Martinel is collected at Saint-Louis Hospice in Vire. She lives there alone with her daughter. It is in this hospital that she meets Dr. Abraham Drucker, who takes her under his wing. In November 1953, the young woman, from a modest family, settles down Station Square at the Druckers “to look after the children, Jean, Michel and Jacques, maintain the house and assist the doctor or his wife Lola who taught me to cook. I have wonderful memories of it, they adopted me as if I were their daughter. I remember the Christmas holidays spent in Brittany, the holidays in Provence in the middle of the apricot fields…” she confided a few years ago to our colleagues. A past that Bernadette will never forget and of which she will always be very proud and very nostalgic.

Born on June 7, 1934, it was surrounded by her daughter Sophie, her grandchildren Salomé, Rachel, Isaac, Igor, members of her family and a few friends that Bernadette Martinel celebrated her 90th birthday on Saturday, June 8.

We remember, Michel Drucker had insisted on being present by making an appearance via screen. What a joy and surprise for Bernadette and her guests to see her “Michou” address her at the aperitif time, the latter remembering and emphasizing childhood memories. At the end of his speech, the man of Looking forward to Sundaywho has not forgotten anything about his childhood, even sang “Happy Birthday Bernadette” which was sung in unison by the entire assembly.

There is no doubt that this evening will remain forever engraved in everyone’s memory and especially in that of Bernadette.

“She is one of the people who have marked my life”

Contacted by telephone, Michel Drucker, not the television man, but the little Michou tells us with emotion:

I am very sad and finally I am happy with the surprise we gave her on the occasion of her 90th birthday a little less than a month ago. I know that it gave her great pleasure. She had around her those she loved, appreciated. I knew she was very weak lately.

He continues: “It’s unfortunately a page that is turning, but she is someone I will not forget, who has meant a lot to me in my life. She knew me as a child, she knew my family in Vire in the 50s. I know that in her eyes I had forever remained her ‘little Michou’ and that she did not see me as the television man that everyone knows. She was always there for each of my trips to the city of my childhood. I remain a Virois at hearta man of memory, she will be one of the people who will have marked my life, just like all these celebrities that I have rubbed shoulders with throughout my career. The older we get, the more we think back to our childhood, the more we remember. Bernadette, her husband Roger, the Martinel brothers orchestraare images that I have not forgotten. All these memories will always have a special place in my heart. I think deeply about her family, her friends and the Virois who loved her.

The funeral of Bernadette Martinel will take place this Thursday, July 4, at 3 p.m. in the Sainte-Anne church in Vire.

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