To make the whole of France laugh, it tires. At the first pump, Jean-Paul Rouve got into the habit of taking refuge in his holiday home nestled in the Luberon. It is in Bonnieux, an hour from Avignon, that Jeff Tuche recovers his breath (and beautiful colors). Embark on a tour of this village very popular with the stars.
Jean-Paul Rouve: his peaceful life in a luxurious village of Luberon, which houses many stars
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August 2020. While France was emerging from its first confinement linked to the COVVID, an actor published on his Instagram thread the perfect illustration of a successful summer, without any sign of post-enfer trauma. Pose shirtless, an orange cap screwed on the head, his Russell jack on his knees, Jean-Paul Rouve celebrated with his 160,000 Instagram subscribers the return of a more normal life. In legend of this photo which smells good in summer, the interpreter of Jeff Tuche, snubbed by the César in 2024, wrote: “Gtro (name of his dog, editor’s note) as an aperitif. Dog life. Luberon“. It must be said that oxymoron has something to make you smile …
In general, the Luberon is not synonymous with “dog life”as most of the French would understand. It was however with this illustrated pirouette that Jean-Paul Rouve raised a modest veil on his life far from Paris.
It was in Bonnieux, an hour from Avignon by car, that the actor fell in love with this popular corner of stars. Before him, other personalities have surveyed the steep streets of this village of 1,500 souls. From Didier Bourdon to Emmanuelle Béart (often there to visit her mother who lived not far from the center of the village), via John Malkovich who rubbed the wine world … “The alleys of Bonnieux compete with the Cannes Croisette”underlined the weekly Gala In an article dedicated to the famous village in August 2007. It is Dominique Farrugia who will lead Jean-Paul Rouve for the first time in Bonnieux. The sun, good wine and friends on every street corner … a cocktail to which the ex-member of ROBINS OF WOODS Quickly got a taste, to the point of investing.
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Every summer, the ritual remains immutable: Jean-Paul Rouve swaps his Parisian home, located in Montmartre, against his haven of peace in the middle of the lavender, facing the mountains. To find out what your house looks like, you just have to continue the stroll on its Instagram wire and discover a long, single-storey building with stone facades. Surrounded by vegetation, the house is long an endless swimming pool in which Gtro obviously likes to dab. Other photos show us that in addition to being Jeff Tuche’s refuge, Bonnieux’s house is also the reunion point for many of his known friends, such as Alice Taglioni, Laurent Delahousse, singer Renaud or Still the writer David Foenkinos. All are entitled to the same legend on the social network: “Friends, Luberon …”
Jean-Paul Rouve likes to sip a beer place Gambetta in Bonnieux
So beautiful photos and smiling people could only push to investigate. It was armed with a notebook to take notes and a pen that we came into contact with the inhabitants of Bonnieux. After a few meetings, the task turned out to be more complicated than expected. If Jean-Paul Rouve likes to share with his fans some shots of his intimacy in the south on Instagram, it is in all discretion that he wanders in the steep alleys of the village. Sometimes it happens to land Gambetta to sip a foam on the go. But nothing more. Do not wait for him to organize an extended lunch, on the terrace of a local restaurant, surrounded by famous friends, in the eyes of all. His tables, Cyril Hanouna’s best enemy organizes them at home. “We met him at the Alpe d’Huez festival last week, entrusts us with an employee of the Bonnieux cooperative cellar (partner of the International Comedy Festival, where God Save The Tuche was opening this year), But in the village, it has not yet happened to me. “ Same story at the Isnard butcher’s shop or even at the Tourist Office …
Very discreet hero in Bonnieux, Jean-Paul Rouve (who blows his 58 candles on January 26, 2025) often hides behind his dog Gtro to make the canvas dream, by publishing on the Instagram page of the animal (which has no less than 6,500 subscribers) Some additional photos taken in the Vaucluse house. GTro, legs in the swimming pool, swimming glasses on the truffle, wishing a “Bel summer” to his community; GTro posed on a bench in the sun, preparing “His tan for summer” ; or even GTRO improvising grape, picking grapes, before realizing that he “didn’t like it”… Many photos of the animal taken in the garden of the Villa de Bonnieux.
Guests to join Jean-Paul Rouve in Bonnieux during the summer of 2020, the journalists of the Monde had come across an artist in his element, slaloming in the streets of the village, having fun of photos stolen by tourists surprised to come face to face with the father of the Tuche family so far from all fridge. “You see, it does not laugh. He is the president they take a picture”explained the actor who likes to charm his famous friends on social networks, in reference to his curly and peroxidated character, tenant of the Élysée in the opus released at the time. “Besides, if you have to blow up a PV, don’t hesitate!” Well aware of having a dream quality of life in this little corner of paradise, the actor admitted to daily journalists being afraid “That all this stops”. Given the number of entries that ensures the release of an episode of Tuchethe villa in the Luberon, its swimming pool, its cypresses, are far, far away, to meet for sale in one of the many local real estate agencies …
