At 90 years old, Jean-Louis Trintignant writes in pain the very last pages of his life, he who faced cancer. His ex-wife, Nadine Trintignant, tells him and their crazy love story in a book to be published by Bouquins. In the pages of Paris Match, we discover behind the scenes of the difficult end of life of the actor of the cult film A man and a woman.
In 1958, Jean-Louis Trintignant met Nadine Marquand and it was love at first sight. The couple married in 1961 and will lead a life made up of ups and downs, between the deceptions assumed by the actor in particular with Romy Schneider – his wife will end up doing the same without hiding her actions – then the death of their daughter Pauline and, finally, paths that separate. At the end of the 1970s, the spouses divorced. Nadine is in a relationship with Alain Corneau then met on the set of the film It only happens to others, of which she was the director in 1971 and he was the first assistant.
Since the death of Alain Corneau in 2010, Nadine Trintignant has lived alone in her private mansion in the Marais district in Paris but is surrounded by her relatives. Besides, she still has contact with her first husband. “Recently, she went to Collias to see Jean-Louis. He is no longer in good shape. Diabetic, he gradually loses his sight. The disunited lovers, great-grandparents, talked for four hours about everything, old quarrels“, relates Paris Match, which gives alarming news on the health of the actor. There is no doubt that the former spouses have undoubtedly also mentioned Marie, their daughter actress who died in 2003 after having received the blows of Bertrand Cantat … A tragedy from which neither one nor the other has ever recovered.
The confidences of Nadine Trintignant can be found in Paris Match, edition of November 10, 2021.