Pair Leandro Carvalho
Published
December 21 at 6:56 p.m.,
updated December 21 at 6:58 p.m.
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Touched by the recent death of Maïté, announced this Saturday, December 21, Emmanuel Macron wanted to pay her a beautiful tribute on social networks.
An icon went out… As revealed by the site News Landes the famous small screen cook, known as Maïté, died on the night of Friday December 20 at the age of 86. A death which obviously marked those close to the south-west star but also the many French viewers who knew her. A death which did not escape the French President, Emmanuel Macron, who, when he learned of this terrible news, took to his social networks to pay a vibrant tribute to the woman who embodied local cuisine.
Indeed, on his X account (formerly Twitter) this Saturday, December 21, Emmanuel Macron spoke to salute the work and life of Maïté. “Ambassador of our traditional cuisine, popular icon, source of inspiration for so many families, Maïté, who so well embodied the art of being French, is no more. I send my condolences to his family, his loved ones and all those who enjoyed listening to him.“, he said. A solemn publication which then encouraged certain Internet users to share, in turn, their impressions on this death. “I loved Maïté. He was my role model in cooking, southwest cooking. Rest in peace my Maïté. And thank you Sir for thinking of her. I'm sad“, we can read in the comments of this vibrant post.
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In 2022, Camille, Maïté's granddaughter, was Faustine Bollaert's guest on the show It starts today. And during her visit, the latter had made some revelations about her grandmother's daily life. “This media side has passed him by. In 2010, she chose to retire and be quiet“, she revealed, specifying that the famous cook was spending her retirement alongside her family. However, a year after these same revelations, the site News Landes had revealed that the wife of Jean-Pierre Ordonez (known as Pierrot, who died in 2020) had been admitted to an nursing home since she suffered from “neurodegenerative disease“.
Article written with the collaboration of 6Medias.
