“He said yes 13 times!”, their improbable marriage

Valérie Perrin, who is one of the guests on the show A Sunday in the countryside this December 22 on France 2 with Frédéric Lopez, married Claude Lelouch during the summer of 2023. A decision that the lovebirds took after more than 17 years as a couple! But why choose to seal their union after waiting so long?

Valérie Perrin: the “surprise” that Claude Lelouch prepared for their wedding day

“After seventeen years, it was a confirmation“, explained the filmmaker to Here Paris. “It allowed us to celebrate and bring the family together. Valérie also has two children. Love has no age“, added this father of seven children, aged 55 to 26. He had also planned a major surprise for the guests on his wedding day, in order to combine business with pleasure.

On the big day, Claude Lelouch told his guests: “I have prepared a little surprise for you. Tonight we're going to party and, when you're all a little drunk, around 10 p.m., I'll shoot a sequence that I'll put in my next film“. Enough to catch the guests off guard for their greatest pleasure.

“When you live with Claude Lelouch, you know he's like that. So we adapt, we write novels, he makes his films… And we are very happy, I think. After happiness, everything is relative. But it’s true that we are very lucky“, commented Valérie Perrin, on the set of C to you.

Claude Lelouch “said 'yes' 13 times” to Valérie Perrin

Definitely full of surprises, the director who recently released the film entitled Eventually had also taken his guests by surprise when it came to answering the fateful question. “He said 'yes' thirteen times on our wedding day“, said the novelist to whom we owe the books Tata or Change the flower water. And for good reason, '13' is his lucky number!

And obviously, their relationship still seems to be going strong. In the show As an asidethe 87-year-old filmmaker confided in his admiration for his wife, 30 years his junior: “This is the first time I've lived with someone who has colossal talent. All the women I met had talent, were wonderful actresses, but she is in the essential. She is in the essential because she talks about the little things in life“.