“Living together requires nuance”

You present “My south side”. Tell us …

Each week, a personality, like Charlotte de Turckheim or Jean-Pierre Foucault, plays the guide and presents his favorite places in the south. Handicrafts, territories, meetings: this is a gourmet program.

And you, what place inspires you?

I am an godmother of the Association of Friends of Notre-Dame-de-Beauvoir, a small Romanesque chapel in Beaumont-de-Pétuis in the Luberon. I like to withdraw there, in silence, while feeling the bustle below.

Your last cultural crush?

The Book of Queensfrom Joumana Haddad. A poignant story on the life trajectories of several Lebanese through generations.

The music that makes you happy in the morning?

Song on my funny life from Véronique Sanson. Strong and fragile, everything she does is an ode to joy!

The person to whom you have the most tenderness?

My mom. At 80, she accompanied me in my victories and in my failures. She gives me the hindsight I need.

A gene that you are happy to have inherited?

The sincere taste of the other, transmitted by my father from childhood. In a walk, he always had attention for the people met.

A quality that you will be proud to transmit to your children?

The ability to adapt. I tell them that our world is complex and that it is necessary to listen to it to understand it and compose with it. It’s fundamental.

A cute sin?

Pastry flans. As soon as I see one in a bakery, I feel forced to taste it.

You have three days, a backpack and no car. Where are you going?

On one of the paths in Compostela. The walk helps me think. My head is more agile and I perceive the world better. In addition, I already have my shoes!

What beauty will save the world?

The nuance.

It is essential, you have to know how to hear it and cultivate it to live together.

We offer you eternal life. Do you sign?

No. Life is dense, precious and fragile because it can stop at any time. It is death that gives it this value and this depth.