In Roselyne Bachelot's family, we knew her brother, Jean-Yves Narquin, close to the National Rally, with whom she no longer speaks. But the former minister spoke little about her offspring.
She is the mother of a boynow a man. Pierre, born on December 16, 1969 from his marriage to Jacques Bachelot in 1968. And it was not always easy for him to grow up in the shadow of his mother.
Roselyne Bachelot horrified for her son
Indeed, in the podcast “Censorship” from our Belgian colleagues Télépro, Roselyne Bachelot reveals that he paid the price for his commitment to politics. She remembers: “My son was beaten by a teacher. It was something very painful.”
And added: “A politician has rewards despite suffering. The family only has suffering.”
The one who hurt his son was a “teacher, political activist opposed to my political family”. And Roselyne Bachelot explains that she discovered late that he had her regularly “tapped on it with a metal ruler.
All this for convictions that her son didn't even have yet, she complains. Roselyne Bachelot ensures: “my kid was 10.” She admits that personally, this attack was an ordeal, “we have a terrible feeling of guilt. It’s terrible as a mother not to have seen my son’s suffering.”
And for good reason, “for months my son hid this”she also said. Roselyne Bachelot remembers well, however, that he had one day placed a post-it on her pillow. With a heavy heart, even today, she reveals that it had been written: “Mom, it’s hard being your son“.
What happened to his son?
It was 40 years ago. And since then, Pierre Bachelot has chosen a career in politics. He was first his parliamentary collaborator between 1992 and 2002. Subsequently, the son of Roselyne Bachelot became a parliamentary advisor.
During this time, his mother was Minister of Ecology, from 2002 to 2004, then Minister of Health, from 2007. Pierre Bachelot was then appointed mission manager with the general management of the National Institute of Prevention and Health Education (INPES).
