This Saturday October 5, 2024,
Bruno Retailleau was expected mid-morning in Saint-Paul-Mont-Penit, in Vendée, a department that he represented in Parliament in the past. Interviewed by the magazine
Paris Matchthe new tenant of the Beauvau hotel says he is very attached to “his carnal homeland”. “I am Vendée and I will stay in Vendée”he insists into the microphone of our colleagues.
Born in Cholet (Maine-et-Loire), this one grew up in a commune in the Vendée countryside located not far from the Puy du Fou park. A seasoned rider, from the age of 17 he participated in the equestrian shows at the leisure complex erected by Philippe de Villiers, his political mentor whom he would succeed as deputy for the fourth constituency of Vendée in the years 90.
What did Bruno Retailleau fall in love with at Place Beauvau?
Bruno Retailleau a quickly became comfortable at the Ministry of the Interior. “Entering his new office, of which all that remains of his predecessor’s visit is a framed photo of children during the fall of Kabul […] a certain satisfaction can be seen on his face”our colleagues note in their article.
These are mainly white roses
of the Beauvau garden which made the heart of the
successor to Gérald Darmanin.“I am already in love !
At home, I must have nearly 150 rose bushes“he confides. If he left his luggage in Paris, his wife, a doctor by profession, remained in Vendée on a farm that once belonged to her paternal grandfather.
What are Bruno Retailleau’s other passions?
Before embarking on a career in politics, Bruno Retailleau had taken passion for directing. In a portrait devoted to him by Le Point, we learn that the Minister of the Interior was particularly interested
“has pyrotechnicshas the sound systemhas laser lighting“going up to shoot clips “including one with Didier Barbelivienfilmed on the Puy du Fou pond behind a superb white half-grand piano placed on the water”.
This son of a grain merchant
a strong appetite for reading. “Books are a sensual object for me. I annotate them, I underline them. Books, culture, it’s a step aside“, he confides. In his library you will find works by Simone Weil, François Cheng, Charles Péguy, Michel Houellebec, Marcel Gauchet and Régis Debray.
