Nolwenn Olivier and Jordan Bardella have been the subject of numerous rumors since their relationship was formed in 2020. Until the breakup that occurred on the sidelines of the elections…
The Montretout manor, anchored in the heights of Saint-Cloud, is undoubtedly the most beautiful symbol of the saga of the Le Pen clan for more than 45 years. It was within these walls that a political monster was born in the person of Jean-Marie Le Pen and that his daughters grew up. It is also there, in secret, that many family intrigues and ruptures took place, including those which still take place today.
Because the rumor has been circulating since the beginning of June: the president of the National Rally Jordan Bardella and his partner Nolwenn Olivier, who were based in Montretout, would have ended their beautiful love story. A breakup announcement as brutal as the RN’s victory in the European elections at or almost the same time, while the couple’s relationship, which began in 2020, seemed solid.
If Nolwenn Olivier like Jordan Bardella are two followers of social networks, where they have also been able to show themselves on rare occasions, no details about their private lives have come to confirm or deny these rumors, relayed in the celebrity press .
Nolwenn Olivier, Bardella’s link with the Le Pen clan
But one thing is certain: Nolwenn Olivier will have, in the shadows, accompanied the rise of Jordan Bardella in politics and perhaps even within the Le Pen clan. A closed clan, where only family members will have succeeded (sometimes only for a time) in finding a place for themselves. Because Nolwenn Olivier is the granddaughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen, daughter of Marie-Caroline Le Pen and the niece of Marine Le Pen. Still a student at the time of her meeting with the ambitious Jordan Bardella, she participated in the 2020 municipal elections in the campaign of her mother, candidate in Calais. A campaign which will mark the return of Marie-Caroline to the National Rally, after years of quarrels with her father and sister. Marie-Caroline Le Pen herself was banned from Montretout for many years, after following the felon Bruno Megret in 1998, with her husband Philippe Olivier.
But with her daughter Nolwenn Olivier, Marie-Caroline Le Pen now has her place in the family fold and even in the political system of the RN. The proof is that she was nominated as a candidate for the legislative elections in the 4th constituency of Sarthe for the 2024 legislative elections. A territory where the extreme right now has a chance of winning.
Nolwenn Olivier, shadow advisor to Marine Le Pen
As for Nolwenn Olivier, although her name has not yet appeared on a ballot, she is already responsible, intermittently it is said, for the communication of her aunt, Marine Le Pen. She would notably be at the initiative of her Tik Tok account and would even go, according to L’Express, so far as to advise the double finalist in the presidential election on her wardrobe to “soften her image”.
Nolwenn Olivier would therefore be a strong ally for Jordan Bardella who has had a more than dazzling career in the hierarchy of the Lepenist party, until taking the lead in 2021. The 28-year-old young man, freshly re-elected to the European Parliament, has several times denied having been introduced or pressured by his partner into the Le Pen family. “Marine Le Pen chose me as head of the list when I was single,” he notably said in L’Express, in 2020, after his victory (already) in the Europeans.
But clichés die hard. Jordan Bardella was indeed involved in the National Front in the early 2010s, he was elected municipal councilor in Saint-Denis in 2014 and was chosen as spokesperson for the National Rally in 2018. But you should know that between time, he will meet Marine Le Pen through his girlfriend at the time, Kerridwen Chatillon, who is none other than the daughter of Frédéric Chatillon, communicator, entrepreneur, sulfurous eminence of the Le Pen and above all great friend of Marine Le Pen since their time at the University of Assas in the early 1990s.
Another girlfriend in the lepenist circle
It was the JDD which revealed it recently: this key meeting took place during a meeting in Brachay, in 2017. “The three of us were there, Jordan, Kerridwen and me, and we met Marine Le Pen “She sees that Bardella is with Kerridwen, she already knew that, but now she sees them together physically for the first time,” another relative present that day told Le Nouvel Obs. “She already knows him, yes, like she knew everyone, but that’s where she spots him, that he’s someone important. He fits into the clan of reliable people.” And added: “private life in the RN makes careers, it’s always the same circus in this party”.
Is the relationship started with Nolwenn Olivier a few years later a sign of an even more visible rapprochement between Jordan Bardella and the Le Pens? Not stingy with photos and posts on the networks, the two lovebirds nevertheless remained discreet about their relationship. Jordan Bardella had just taken a look at his relationship in an interview with Paris Match in August 2020. He admitted to sharing with Nolwenn Olivier a passion (in addition to politics no doubt), for cooking, which he often practiced with She…
The installation in Montretout, a strategic location, considered the epicenter of the National Front and then the National Rally, is undoubtedly worth much more than these superficial confidences. Especially since this development in the stronghold of Hauts-de-Seine was a first for such an influential politician, without being a member of the Le Pen family.
It remains to be seen now, if the breakup of Jordan Bardella and Nolwenn Olivier is confirmed, who will remain in the Saint-Cloud mansion, which is repudiated as quickly as one enters it. Recent proof: a certain Marion Maréchal, who until a few years ago still bore the name Le Pen, also the patriarch’s granddaughter (she is the daughter of Yann Le Pen), clearly no longer has access there. Called by the sirens of Eric Zemmour in 2022, she will have attempted a rapprochement two years later, after the European elections. In vain.
