“My children make me better”

Explain the principle of your column to us …

I look at the world through the eyes of a personality, an animal or an object to shed unexpected and poetic light on a news. Recently for example, I was able to identify myself with Rillette, a tamed wild boar from the Troyes region (Aube) that the authorities wanted to shoot down, but which was defended by the residents, including hunters.

A person you dream of telling fate?

George Sand who, in the 19th century, dressed in frock coat, engaged in politics, published more than 70 novels … This is one of the first to have emancipated from the role attributed to women.

Your radio crush?

“Under the Plato sun” on France Inter, which tackles philosophy intimately. Charles Pépin asks his guests questions that cross us all: how do we learn to see? What can console us? How to get rid of your desire for revenge?

The people who count most in your family?

My daughter and my son. Every day, they make me better. Thanks to them, at 43, I find myself marveling with everything.

The object that crossed the generations at home?

A cake box, which belonged to my mother. I take advantage of this memory to tell my children, her stove talents, her sweetness.

What will you never tire of contemplating?

Snow. In December, I went to walk on the Vercors set.

A storm got up and I found myself stuck three days in a refuge. Rather than panicking, I was intoxicated with the landscape bathed in iridescent light.

A solidarity initiative that touched you?

I collected the testimony of a florist, Laure Marivain, whose daughter died of leukemia. Thanks to the help of the Phyto-Victimes association, she had justice recognized the link between her exposure to pesticides during pregnancy and the disease of her young.

The guardian angel on your shoulder?

I have one on each side, my mother on the right and my father on the left. I owe them my ability to preserve my freedom.

For you, Jesus, it’s …

The first of the revolutionaries. He denounced greed and advocated equality.