She is one of the faces known to France Télévisions viewers, her son one of the faces of BFMTV. This Wednesday, June 5, Nathalie Saint-Cricq was the guest of “Buzz TV” on Le Figaro, on the occasion of her participation in the special edition of France 2 for the 80th anniversary of the Landing. The political columnist will in fact be on Julian Bugier’s set to comment on this historic day. A day which is very symbolic for his family, since his grandfather Jean Meunier, was a deputy engaged in the Resistance under the Nazi occupation during the Second World War.
“If I had a rapper son, I would have fewer opportunities to interact with him”
“I was somewhat brought up on that, it’s true that it’s the historical period that I like the most: the interwar period, the rise of fascism, Pétainism and Vichy.”, notes the journalist. “And there, for the Landing, I can’t even imagine the courage (…) of the kids who go to their death, smiling, telling themselves that it is their duty“, she continues. In any case, the transmission of journalism is definitely a family affair for Nathalie Saint-Cricq.
His grandfather Jean Meunier is also the founder of the newspaper La Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest, in September 1944. A newspaper today chaired by Jacques Saint-Cricq, his father. With her husband, the journalist Patrice Duhamel, they then passed on this passion to their son, Benjamin Duhamel, who in turn became a political journalist on BFMTV.
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“He believes he is much more progressive than me. But oDon’t argue. We sometimes have different opinions in politics so we discuss them at home“, she tells Damien Canivez and Cécile Brelot at the microphone. “The advantage is that if I had a rapper son, I would have fewer opportunities to interact with him, or rather I would sometimes have nothing to say to him. There, with my two sons and their father, we always have topics, and it’s true that it’s sometimes a little annoying for outsiders.“, confides the editorialist.
“So, the next generation is ready, retirement soon!”
“I’m very satisfied for him, because (…) he works a lot, he doesn’t just tap dance on television, so I’m proud of him” she assures. There are things which are a little painful The other day at a book fair, a gentleman approached my husband and said to him ‘can you sign an autograph for me and you write Benjamin’s father?’, so c. is a huge lesson in humility !” she jokes. puremedias.com invites you to watch the sequence in the video above.
“Sometimes people come to see me and say ‘so, the next generation is ready, retirement soon! (…) Well one day when I’m in the street with him someone will say, ‘who’s the old woman next to Benjamin Duhamel’?” she smiles again, before assuring that that’s all she wishes for him. “We don’t have children to try to dominate and crush them.“, she concludes.
