Bruno Duvic: “What is happening in the Vatican is fascinating”
What does this new position in Italy reveal to you?
A great attachment that dates back to childhood. In Vendée, where I grew up, I had Italian friends with whom I played football. I learned their language in middle school. Then, as a student, I left for an Erasmus year in Florence. I love this country for its culture, both close to ours and quite different. It represents a veritable political laboratory and everything that happens in the Vatican is geopolitically and intellectually exciting.
Your latest artistic crush?
The “Naples in Paris” exhibition (at the Louvre until January 8, 2024, editor’s note). The Capodimonte Museum has lent masterpieces by Caravaggio, Masaccio and other great painters of the Italian Renaissance to the Louvre. It is simply magnificent.
The book you could read a hundred times?
Asterix in Corsica! I read the entire collection regularly. This one is particularly funny, earthy, and is by far my favorite.
A quality that you will be proud to pass on?
The ability to listen, attention to others, whatever their origin and social background.
You have three days, a backpack but no car. Where do you decide to go?
I go hiking by the sea, along the coast of Brittany.
For what cause would you mobilize?
For everything that helps single mothers. I’ve been struck, in the interviews I’ve done lately, by how many of them turn to charities. The Covid-19 crisis has only accentuated the phenomenon.
A solidarity initiative that touched you?
The tour of the schools made by Latifa Ibn Ziaten, the mother of the soldier killed by Mohammed Merah. Reacting to this tragedy by saying that through words, testimony, we can mend the social bond, I find it beautiful, courageous and very touching.
