A tragedy that changed his life. The host Jean-Pierre Foucault addressed for the first time the tragic death of his father Marcel when he was only 14 years old at the end of September in the France 2 program A Sunday in the countryside. Surrounded by other guests and Frédéric Lopez, at the helm, the presenter of the Miss France competition had chosen the cozy setting of the program to confide. This Wednesday, October 9, it’s in C to you that the 76-year-old host spoke of his father, “disappeared in tragic conditions”.
“On February 22, 1962, he was taken down in the street with a bullet in the back and a bullet in the neck. This is how, at the age of 14, with a single blow, I was become an adult”Evelyne’s husband had specified to Frédéric Lopez. On France 5, he explained that he never really knew what had happened: “I never knew. We lived in Marseille. He had a branch of his fruit and vegetable company in Algiers, in Tunis and pretty much everywhere else. One day, he went to Algiers for 48 hours and he didn’t know. didn’t come back.” Jean-Pierre Foucault then revealed that his mother had explained to him that his father was “left to check the accounts”. Which allowed the host to form his own idea of the circumstances of the drama: “I suspect that something must have happened between the partners and him.”
A drama that forged a young Jean-Pierre Foucault
The murder of his father had a huge impact on the life of Jean-Pierre Foucault, who arrived on the set with a red eye. If he explained that he and his sisters had become “wards of the nation” and that “France was great” with them, this drama forged his personality since it was at that moment that he “started clowning”. Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine, the host of the France 5 show, then asked him why he hadn’t talked about it until then: “I didn’t want people to say: ‘He’s using this to assert his notoriety.’ My notoriety has been made for several years now and it liberated me a little to tell this story.” Particularly touching, Jean-Pierre Foucault also revealed that this drama, by “forcing” him to act as a clown, had allowed him to find his way: “I think of my father every day. Even if directly, he did not help me do my job, indirectly, I undoubtedly owe it to him.” Touching confidences.
Article written with the collaboration of 6Medias
Photo credits: Screenshot France 5
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