Singer Renaud will have had a busy life! Crowned with popular success thanks to his many hits, the artist also experienced great personal moments. In the 1970s, he fell in love with Dominique Quilichini… then already married to actor Gérard Lanvin. Never mind, the artist will do everything to win her over.
In 1975, Renaud therefore met Dominique Quilichini and, between them, it was love at first sight! He “fall madly in love“, reported the magazine Paris Match in 2020 in a portrait dedicated to the interpreter of Winner Mistral, Let it go or morgan of you. However, it will take some time before they can form a couple because Madame is then officially married to Gérard Lanvin. But Renaud opts for a tactic that hits home with Dominique to convince her to leave her husband…”It is by writing her love songs that he seduces her. Stuff he lays in a quarter of an hour on a corner of the table. Dominique was married to Lanvin, who did not want a divorce. But Renaud fought for her. And Lanvin metamorphoses into Gérard Lambert in his songs“, David Séchan recalled to the magazine, referring to the song here. The Adventures of Gerard Lambert.
Renaud and Dominique Quilichini will then finally get married discreetly in August 1980. The couple’s love story will last almost 25 years and will give birth to a little girl: Lolita, born a few days after the lovers’ wedding! In 1999, Dominique decided to leave the singer, tired of his descent into hell marked by an alcoholism that would eat away at him for many years.
As for Gérard Lanvin, remarried with Jennifer, he does not keep any animosity for the one who stole his wife from him. “My story with Renaud is quite easy. For me, he was the poet of a generation, I adored Renaud and I love him very much. He met Dominique who was my wife at the time, they both fell in love but that never bothered me. I was married very young, I stayed ten years with Dominique and who had a happy life with Renaud. They unfortunately separated, life is like that. But again, I never had any problems with Renaud, really not“, he confided in an interview.