In 2008, we learn that Michèle Laroque, divorced mother of a daughter, Oriane, is dating François Baroin and they appear more in love than ever in the stands of Roland-Garros a year later. Everything shines for the actress who caused a sensation at that time in comedy Finally widow. His love affair with the politician François Baroin, divorced from the journalist and presenter Valérie Broquisse and father of three is observed in the media, they pose together with pleasure at parties but it stops there.
After an episode where his tax operations in the United States, in no way illegal, are singled out by the Carnard Chained in 2010, while her beloved François Baroin is Minister of the Budget, Michèle Laroque explains in an interview in C to you the same year why she speaks sparingly about her couple in the media: “I always paid attention to what I said, for my relatives, my daughter, my parents, so as not to put them in a delicate situation. This is not going to change because my companion is a minister (…) My private life is not a spectacle. I am very generous on stage or in my films and, indeed, not when it comes to my private life. I think there are enough people who want to talk about theirs so that mine is respected.“The actress will nevertheless agree to share her feelings about the political world she has discovered:”I am not a politician. (…) He would have been a farmer, it would have been so interesting (…) It’s a very violent environment, that really unsettled me.“
A speech that will be his leitmotif. In Current wife in 2017, the heroine of How beautiful you are! entrusts : “I once said that I would no longer bring up the subject of our relationship, it did me so good that I stick to it. ” A few months earlier, it was with the same state of mind that she responded to Gala : “It is true that we rarely show up together … I am delighted to cover the tracks, it means that our lifestyle is functioning well. To answer your question, yes, we are still together and everything is fine.“
Photographed together during Jacques Chirac’s funeral in 2019, Michèle Laroque (61 years old) and François Baroin (56 years old) continue to enjoy life with discretion. The politician’s schedule has recently been lightened as he passed the torch of the post of president of the Association of Mayors of France to David Lisnard, mayor of Cannes, last November. He wants “enjoy life and freedom, very far from social networks and news channels“, had written Le Figaro. And accompanied by his children and his sweet and radiant Michèle Laroque.