If he was already blond, the young man who strokes a rabbit does not yet have the curly haircut that made his charm later, but rather the bob cut hair. Seeming rather shy, he therefore shows his whole face in front of the lens, a shot that Jean-Marie Périer likes a lot for this reason, according to his comment in the caption: “Me, I liked when we saw his eyes…“
Julie Andrieu’s ex-companion then punctuates this photograph with a quote from Françoise Sagan: “The party is a secret, sacred and sacrilegious thing. The party is not done with feathers in a nightclub, it is done in the dark with someone“. A sentence could perfectly adapt to Michel Polnareff, who, after having provoked a lot in alluring outfits and with sometimes inappropriate photos, has been in withdrawal for several years.
After coming close to death following a pulmonary embolism in 2016, he had indeed spent several months resting with his wife Danyellah and their son Louka, born in 2010. In 2018, he returned with a new album and this year is preparing a tour called Polnarêves, which will begin in May in Paris. Perhaps Jean-Marie Périer, who knew him so young, will come and applaud him at the Palace…