A true place of worship dedicated to the memory of Claude François, the famous Moulin de Dannemois has brought together several personal objects of the late singer. But one in particular raises the hackles of his son, Claude François Jr.
In 1964, Claude François was already a singing star thanks to hits like Beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful! et If I had a hammer. He then looked for a quiet home to avoid the hordes of fans and fell in love with the Moulin de Dannemois, a 12th century building in Essonne, on the outskirts of Paris. After the singer’s death in 1978, the place became a museum.
During a filmed visit, his son Claude François Jr was dismayed to discover an object hanging on one of the walls of the mill…
What afflicted Cloclo’s son
It is the host Mireille Dumas who puts the anecdote back in the spotlight in a video extract shared at the beginning of January on her TikTok account, on which she takes pleasure in bringing archive images from her cult shows out of the closet. While Claude François Jr – whose mother is the model and dancer Isabelle Forêt – gives a private tour of the Mill in front of the cameras, we can see him sighing and getting annoyed in front of a glass painting hanging on the wall. Why then? Because the latter contained a piece of clothing belonging to him…
“No, but that’s not possible! It’s my layette… Everyone is upset about it! We visit the Moulin de Claude François and there is my layette, I can confirm that everyone is scratching about it. Besides, we don’t know anything about it. There was a fan who had to tell them: ‘I have the layette, I have the photo.’ No, but it has nothing to do with it, look!“, added the artist’s son, showing the outfit and the photo of him as a baby in a white outfit.
What happens to Claude François’s mill?
After the singer’s death in 1978 – which occurred at his apartment on Boulevard Exelmans, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris – the Moulin was sold. However, it remained abandoned for a decade then, in 1998, it was Pascal and Marie-Claude Lescure who bought the house. They spent a lot of money to do major work and transform the place into a museum with various objects from the hit singer Monday in the sun et As per usual.
“They welcome curious people and unconditional fans all year round. Thanks to them, the singer’s soul now hovers over this magnificent residence“, reports the official website. The newspaper West France ensures that the Mill welcomed no less than 15,000 visitors in 2023! “Marie-Claude and Pascal Lescure, who refused to sell the estate to Claude François Junior, the icon’s eldest son, have now started new work to build a hotel“, adds the daily.
