Before meeting and marrying Hélène Gremillon, Julien Clerc had an eventful love life. The singer has notably experienced several relationships with other celebrities, such as France Gall or Miou-Miou. He reconsiders his break with the first, a separation that he attributes in part to “stories of light“…
Happy Days, title of Julien Clerc’s new album, was released on Friday, December 26, 2021. The 74-year-old artist is promoting it through interviews and TV appearances, and spoke with the magazine Point de Vue. He talks about his past in love and his romance with France Gall (died January 7, 2018). Julien Clerc met her in 1969 and was then 22 years old. He was then starring in the musical Hate.
France was a downhill singer when we loved each other …
“France was a ‘downhill’ singer when we loved each other, before she met Michel Berger“, specifies Julien Clerc to Point of view. On a downward slope, France Gall was then confronted with a crossing of the artistic desert and suffered from remaining in the shadow of her companion, whom she left in 1974. The “stories of light“, implied by success, got the better of their story.
“Very young, I had a fiancée, France Gall. Then, I had the chance to live retired in the countryside, with Miou-Miou. And today, Hélène Grémillon is my wife. I have lived several lives, but always with the same desire to work on music“, summarizes Julien Clerc about his love life. Hélène Gremillon and he united on December 17, 2012, at the town hall of the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The couple will celebrate their earthenware wedding this Friday, corresponding to 9 years of marriage.
Julien Clerc and Hélène Grémillon are parents of a child, a boy named Léonard and aged 13. The teenager is the youngest of his father, who also has three daughters and a boy, Jeanne (born from his story with Miou-Miou), Vanille and Barnabé (from his first marriage to Virginie Coupérie-Eiffel) and finally Angèle. , biological daughter of Miou-Miou and her ex-companion Patrick Dewaere, whom Julien Clerc adopted in 1992. “I had children from 30 to 60 years old … My last son is 13 years old, and I have grandchildren who are his age, my wife is younger than me: it’s a boost formidable“enthuses Julien Clerc.
The full interview with Julien Clerc can be found in the December 15, 2021 issue of the magazine Point of view.