François Poivre d’Arvor celebrated his 27th birthday on April 29. The son of Claire Chazal and Patrick Poivre d’Arvor is a discreet manalways stayed away from the media tumult and the lights of the spotlights that both his parents chose. What is it becoming today? The former star of 20 hourss of TF1 rarely mentions his son, born in 1995. This only child who nevertheless holds a crucial place in the life of Claire Chazal. But when the 65-year-old journalist decides to open up about François Poivre d’Arvor, her words testify to her unfailing love for the latter.
Last March, she agreed to make a few rare confidences about her son François in the columns of Gala. “A meaning to life. He is the reason for being, the reason for living. For me having a child was a necessity. It imposed itself. He is my base“, informed Claire Chazal to our colleagues. Today does he still live with her? No, as confided by the one who shared his life with Arnaud Lemaire, the young man took off from the family nest. For a long time, Francois Poivre d’Arvor even lived thousands of miles away from her.”It is certain that at one time like many teenagers, he wanted to cut the cord and he did it by going very far. First in New Zealand, then in London and now in Hong Kong“, thus delivered Patrick Poivre d’Arvor on this subject, to VOD in 2016.
Does he live in France or abroad?
It’s for escape this media life that he did not choose that the young man decided to leave France. “That’s why he went abroad, to be judged by who he really is, not by his name.. And I understand it welldeclared Claire Chazal to Paris Match in 2019. I don’t know how all this will evolve, how we get out of it. How do we assert ourselves in relation to that? How do you define yourself in relation to your parents? It is surely not easy.“The star journalist has thus recognized the complicated relationship of her son to notoriety. “He did not have a very easy relationship with notoriety” she noted.
And it is also in relation to this modesty that Claire Chazal speaks very little of the life of François Poivre d’Arvor. “Children’s lives belong to them. I think what they hate is that we talk for them and I understand them“, she thus explained to 50 mins Inside in January 2019. According to information from Gala, is that after his studies abroad, in the four corners of the world, François Poivre d’Arvor, 27 years old for a few days, finally decided to return to France, to Paris. He lives in a lively district of the capital, still far from public life, and pursues his professional career away from all.
An only child who makes her nostalgic
As for Claire Chazal, protective and fusional mother, she does not hide her nostalgia alongside her only child. The one found in Elysee 2022 and Passage of the arts is sometimes nostalgic for the first years with François, as entrusted to Gala last March. “The nostalgia that I can have is that of the small classes, this time when I accompanied my son to school, in his learning, in his development. Share this daily life of homework, sporting life, discovery of the world. I really liked those moments.“, she said. An only child who has fulfilled her so much that she never imagined becoming a mother again.”I never idealized siblings, even if it is true that there can be a life force in large families, but that is not what I wanted“, she concludes.