Bernard de La Villardière, a “provincial bourgeois” owner of a castle in Isère

Bernard de La Villardière is a key figure of M6. After presenting for seven years Forbidden Zonea program since hosted by Ophélie Meunier, the 66-year-old journalist is at the helm of another program on the channel: Exclusive survey. Since 2005, he has traveled the whole world – from Panama to Kuwait, via Haiti – to address political, economic, social and cultural themes. And after all these trips thousands of kilometers away, he always finds his Parisian cocoon. But not only! The family of Anne de Savignac's husband also owns renowned real estate in Isère.

He never hid it: Bernard Edouard Henri Berger de La Villardière came from a bourgeois family. In 2019, with our colleagues from TV 2 Weekshe spoke of his roots without taboo. “I am a provincial bourgeoisrecognized this father of four children. I have a family property, which I share with my mother and my brothers and in which I go to relax for two weeks a year.“This property is none other than the Château de la Frette, located in Isère that his ancestors, lords of the 19th century, had acquired. Indeed, it was in 1804 that Etienne Berger de La Villardière purchased the beautiful building “It has belonged to us for two hundred years. But that doesn't make me a squire! My education taught me to be respectful of differenceshe assured. The less people look like me, the more they interest me. This is what pushes me to go and interview people on the other side of the planet.“

Bernard de La Villardière charmed by Isère and its mountains

This Isère castle remains the “family cradle“, as Bernard de La Villardière confided in 2013 to Dauphiné. “I was born in Paris, but I spent a large part of my holidays there, and I return there regularly: there is a friendly micro-climate, where life is good“, he added. It must be said that the setting is idyllic: “I like skiing, hiking. I have climbed Mont Aiguille several times, in the Vercors, and I did Mont-Blanc a dozen years ago.“A castle which strengthens a little more the family ties of the television man who himself comes from a family of four.