A book written with four hands to express one and the same pain… In Yves Montand, this child who held out her arms to you, Anne Drossart affirms it: in the early 1970s, she lived a two-year passion with the famous actor and singer whom she admired so much. She who was only 20 years old… While he was married to Simone Signoret, this young lover with stars in her eyes, finds out she is pregnant. And tell him the news. Now the 54-year-old man, at the height of his glory, returning from the filming of the film “The wild” of Jean-Paul Rappeneau, does not intend to assume this paternity and immediately puts an end to their relationship. For years, the young woman will try to renew the dialogue with the artist but in vain… Aurore, brought up in the certainty that Yves Montand is her famous parent will then never stop wanting to know him, then to to recognize. With her mother, she will take legal action in 1989, two years before the disappearance of the actor. They will get won in 1994 before DNA tests dismissed their approach in 1998. With a final closure of the file in 2001 after the rejection of an appeal in cassation led by Anne Drossart.
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“Anyway, no one believed me, neither the teacher nor the school director”
Today, mother and daughter are joining their strength and their desire to shed light on this dark and sad story in a book which, with the help of rare documents and unpublished photos, intends to restore the, or at least, their truth. Touching, moving, the book recounts anecdotes and testimonies that cannot leave you unmoved. Like the difficulties encountered by little Aurore, born in 1975, in her childhood, victim of the teasing of her classmates: “The teacher had given us sheets to fill out, divided into two parts. One was for the father and the other for the mother. We had to fill in the gaps in the various boxes where we were asked to mention the surname, first name, address and profession of the parents. With the exception of the address, which I did not know, I felt no particular shame or embarrassment in indicating that my father was called Yves Montand and that he was an actor and a singer. For me, it was a job like any other. My mother always referred to him as my father.I had no reason to doubt it.”, she describes soberly. But that was without counting on the other children: “I will never forget the taunts of my neighbors, who read over my shoulder what I had just written. There’s no meaner and more ruthless than kids this age […]”Anyway, no one believed me, neither the teacher nor the school principal. They called me a liar. The following years, I hesitated for a long time before filling in the famous boxes. Remember that it was in 1989, with the birth of Valentin Livi, the son that the 67-year-old actor had with his last companion Carole Amiel, that Anne Drossart decided to initiate a request for recognition of paternity for her daughter. Not having been able to prove the filiation, and this, 25 years after the biological tests carried out on the remains of Yves Montand, she does not admit defeat. At 70, she intends to restore the truth through this book calling for popular recognition of her story.
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