This Tuesday, November 26, 2024, Léa Salamé received the Belgian singer Pierre de Maere, came to promote his title These walls, which he performs with singer Dua Lipa. And straight away the France Inter journalist asks him a series of quite astonishing questions: “If you were a historical character, a painter and a vice, who would you be, who would you be? So a historical character first…”, she asks him.
“You start with the hardest… It's difficult to project yourself onto someone more than to say a characteristic. I don't know… So a historical character, I thought, I thought and I couldn't find the person,” confides the singer, thus revealing to France Inter listeners that some answers are prepared in advance.
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Thus, Léa Salamé was obliged to explain: “You have thought about it because when you arrive in the corridors, Perrine or Grégoire who receive you, give you the three”, she indicates. But even with a head start, Pierre de Maere had a hard time answering: “I got the info 10 minutes ago. And I'm a very slow person”, he believes.
However, the singer manages to give the three requested pieces of information
by Léa Salamé : “There is one, it's too cliché, that's why I'm not proud of my answers: Louis XIV for the flamboyance, for what it represents, for the generosity in appearances. The role of clothing is something that has always interested me.”
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To which Léa Salamé responds: “We’ll take it.” “A painter, Hubert Robert, 19th century, he's a Frenchman, he worked on the Louvre for a while (…) It's romantic, it's so beautiful”. Finally, Pierre de Maere must give his vice:
“A vice: gluttony is the most charming of all. It’s not gluttony, the fact of eating well, even if since I have a little money, I’ve had a blast all the stars in Paris…”, he says before being cut off by Léa Salamé: “So who is the best star in Paris?”.
Without flinching, the singer says: “It’s Anne-Sophie Pic, she’s the lady of Pic, she’s a star and it’s much cheaper than with Guy Savoy and it’s a little better.” A remark that made Léa Salamé uncomfortable: “But that’s not possible.” To which Pierre de Maere apologized: “I'm sorry. I love Guy Savoy, sincerely, but it’s too expensive”he says live. And knock.
