By Ikrame Daoudi
Published
January 11 at 8:20 p.m.
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This January 11, Matthieu Ricard is the guest of the show THE Papotin meetings on France 2. The famous Buddhist monk is the son of a man who is not unknown…
A special guest for an unfiltered interview. This January 11, 2025, Matthieu Ricard is the guest of Papotin meetings on France 2 at 8:30 p.m. During this exchange, the famous Buddhist monk will answer unfiltered questions from journalists with autism spectrum disorders. The one who became a Tibetan Buddhist monk more than 50 years ago will speak in particular about his vision of life. For the occasion, find out who the father of Matthieu Ricard is, a man far from being unknown. Indeed, this trained scientist, photographer, humanitarian and essayist, according to his biography on Instagram, is the son of Jean-François Revel and Yahne Le Toumelin. They also had a daughter, Ève Ricard.
Jean-François Revel, who died on April 30, 2006 at the age of 82, whose real name was Ricard, was a French journalist and essayist. He had notably worked for the art magazine The Eye, pour France-Observateur and had been the director of L’Express at the end of the 1970s. Jean-François Revel was also elected to the French Academy in 1997. The same year, he also published a book with his son Matthieu Ricard, The monk and the philosopher. After his separation from Yahne Le Toumelin, a renowned painter and Buddhist nun who died on May 8, 2023, the latter found love again with the journalist Claude Sarraute, whom he married in 1967.
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Journalist and author Claude Sarraute, popular figure in Laurent Ruquier’s gang, died on Tuesday June 20, 2023 at the age of 95. She was the mother of four children, three sons and a daughter. Laurent Tzara and Martin Tzara are the result of his marriage to the physicist Christophe Tzara (son of the writer Tristan Tzara). Claude Sarraute then married Jean-François Revel. Together, they had two children: Nicolas and Véronique. Thus, Claude Sarraute was the mother-in-law of the Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard and the writer Ève Ricard.
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