Claire Chazal is back in the spotlight. The former presenter of 8 p.m. on TF1 joined forces with Laëtitia Guédon, the theater woman, creator of Wild plateausto imagine the show At everyone’s tablein which they combine their personal memories and their passion for books. The 68-year-old woman confided, on this occasion, to the magazine Point of view.
This is not the first time that the journalist has taken the stage, as she recalls. She has already been to the theater as a reader: “I participated in the Grignan Correspondence Festival, said Leave me by Marcelle Sauvageot at the Petit Théâtre de Paris. Before passing away, Philippe Tesson, who was my first boss at Paris daily and my wonderful mentor had suggested that I go on stage at his Théâtre de Poche-Montparnasse. His daughter Stéphanie, who took over from him, reminded me of this. For several months, every Monday, I read texts from authors I like: The World of Yesterday, Memories of a European the Stefan Zweig, European education by Romain Gary, Ravel by Jean Echenoz, The more than alive by Christian Bobin, and None of us will come back by Charlotte Delbo.” A passion which allowed him to discover the “physical contact with people, their reactions, their silences too“.
At everyone’s table also evokes culinary reminiscences. If for Laëtitia Guédon being around the table was a meeting that allowed her to discuss family resolutions, say I love you or settle scores, Claire Chazal has very different memories. “With me, it wasn’t like that. There was no celebration, no sharing. Nothing to do with food. I have very few memories of large family tables. My mother didn’t cook… But I don’t deny Auvergne gastronomy“, she explains. Born to a father (Jean) who became a magistrate at the Court of Auditors and a teacher (Josette), who became a professor of literature, the television woman did not experience these great moments but does not seem to suffer from it.
Claire Chazal has a special relationship with her body
The mother of François, born from her relationship with Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, who married Xavier Couture and dated the young Arnaud Lemaire, is not a big foodie anyway. She had in fact confided to Paris Match to have “more pleasure in depriving oneself than in being satisfied” et “to like to live on hunger, on effort”. “There are many women, and men too, who have this requirement. There is a sort of pleasure in drying out, in asceticism, in the idea that we hold on, even that we starve“, she added. A “daily discipline” associated with a great practice of dance. To the same magazine, she explained: “I do about seven hours of dancing and stretching per week… Even though the skin is obviously marked by time, I’m not nostalgic for my 30s.“No wonder Claire Chazal has one.”great line” as Laëtitia Guédon confides!
At everyone’s table as part of Grand Reporterre, January 16 and 17 at the Point du Jour theater in Lyon.
