After more than two years of absence due to Covid-19 and health restrictions, the Price of the Closerie des Lilas was finally able to get up to speed! For its 15th anniversary, the organizers have pulled out all the stops for the great return of the literary event highlighting women in the art of writing, both on the jury side and on the winners side. Laura Smet was not competing for the prize but was one of the guest jurors for this 2022 edition. The 38-year-old actress had put on her best smile to see Elena Piacentini, Corsican author of thrillersto be crowned big winner for her novel, far from her usual register, The silences of Ogliano.
Relaxed while remaining at the forefront of fashion, Laura Smet lost none of her splendor when Frédéric Beigbeder, her ex-companion, also made his entrance. If they did not pose together in front of the photographers present for the occasion, Laura Smet and Frédéric Beigbeder have not been cold since they separated in 2006. Water has flowed under the bridges and each rebuilt his life on his side.
The relationship that linked Laura Smet and Frédéric Beigbeder was akin to a destructive passion. The filmmaker will say it himself on the show As an asidethe couple often went out, a frantic and chaotic pace that did not bring them all good at the time: “We trained. I, who was older, should perhaps have been more careful. I was in a phase of my life where I practiced a certain nocturnal tippinghe confided to Nathalie Lévy. But I think now – it’s twenty years later – we can look back on this story fondly.”
She invited her ex to her wedding
If they loved each other as much as they tore each other apart, Laura Smet and Frédéric Beigbeder did not cut ties. The daughter of Nathalie Baye and Johnny Hallyday had even invited his ex and his wife Lara during her marriage to Raphaël Lancrey-Javal. A gesture that the father of three children had greatly appreciated: “I thought it was very classy of him to invite us and that’s why I went with Lara. It is a proof of intelligence and friendship.“Since then, Laura Smet has also tasted the joys of family life by giving birth to a little Léo, 1 year and a half. A happy ending worthy of a novel!