Georget Bernier, future Professor Choron, is a kid from the countryside, who will then go to work in a dairy in Meuse before enlisting in the colonial infantry, thus passing from cans to slums. And then he will co-found two legends of the media and of satire: Hara-Kiri and Charlie Hebdo. The two newspapers are also linked, Charlie was born after the ban on Hara Kiri in 1970. A little reminder of the facts: on November 1, 1970, 146 people were killed in a fire in a dance hall in Isère; 15 days later, General de Gaulle dies and Charlie title: tragic ball in Colombey: 1 death. It was very bloated! Choron liked to describe his ducks like this: beasts and bad guys. But stupid and mean, Choron was not at all in life. “It was a tender heart” says a resident of Aubréville, where Choron and his relatives often come to the family home, notably with Michèle Bernier, her daughter, and Charlotte Gaccio, her granddaughter.
Choron was much loved in Aubréville. Residents had confided in a journalist from the Republican East when the professor died, this is what one of them said: “He came back to Aubréville every Saturday, he paid us champagne. When he returned he was seen arriving in a six-foot-long American car, a Plymouth. He loved the high life but he was also very generous. In Paris, he offered coffee and snacks to his employees and to homeless people in the rue des Trois-Portes where Charlie Hebdo’s headquarters were ”. Michèle Bernier and Charlotte Gaccio come back often. Michèle is a beautiful ambassador for Lorraine and the Meuse in the national media: “It’s a magnificent region. The Argonne forest is to die for, it’s hilly and green. We are in history all the time. It’s a special place and it’s still a real campaign, ”she said recently.