They have been in perfect love since they met almost 10 years ago. It was in 2014 that Jean Dujardin met former skater Nathalie Péchalat. Love at first sight about which the actor confided at the time to the magazine SHE : “When I saw Nathalie, my wife, on television – I didn’t see her skating but talking – she charmed me. And at that moment, I chose my life. I got back in control, I asked myself what I wanted, where I was, and presto, I went for it!” he declared, before adding: “Making strong and lasting decisions: that’s the only way for me to feel good, because then I have a foundation.”
On May 19, 2018, the couple decided to seal this union with a marriage. The filmmaker Claude Lelouch, Elsa Zylberstein, Clovis Cornillac and Lilou Fogli, Antoine Duléry, Nicolas Bedos and the dancer Christophe Licata travel in particular to attend the couple’s wedding at the Manoir de Tourgéville, located at the gates of the city of Planches.
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Alice and Jane
Already the father of two children Jules (22 years old) and Simon (21) born from his union Gaelle Demars, Jean Dujardin had two other children with his current wife, Jeanne born in December 2015 and Alice born in February 2021.
Two births about which Nathalie Péchalat confided in our colleagues from Magic Mom. The former sportswoman had in fact confided that she had not chosen her eldest’s first name at random: “It is said that when a mother is very in love with her husband, she gives her first child the same first name […] There was this idea on my side, and then the first name Jeanne is present in our respective families, with Jean”she explained about her first daughter, adding that it was “the idea of filiation which prevailed” on the rest.
Jeanne, which is the feminine form of the first name Jean which means “God forgives” was therefore “obvious” for the two lovers. “We didn’t have any discussions or waiting. It was decided very quickly,” concluded the mother.
As for the first name of their youngest Alice, an ancient derivative of Adelaide, from the Germanic word adal, “noble race”, Nathalie Péchalat and Jean Dujardin gave no explanation.
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