The day of the death of Yves Montand, artist “haunted by the fear of aging“, Anne Drossart and her daughter Aurore, born in 1975, were not on good terms with the star. And for good reason: the actress, who claims that her child is the fruit of her adulterous relationship with the artist during her marriage to Simone Signoret (who herself will be informed of their existence), had taken legal action in 1989 to have her paternity officially recognized. on the business of his life in the book Yves Montand, this child who held out her arms to youpublished on Thursday April 20, 2023 by L’Archipel and that Tele-Leisure and lire.
“Aurore has never felt so rejected as at this precise moment“
The author, who recounts the reaction “sickening” by Yves Montand on learning of her pregnancy, also returns to the disappearance of her former lover on November 9, 1991. Her daughter Aurore, who had met the artist’s grandson, Benjamin Castaldi, on C8, then wishes to collect in front of his Parisian home, boulevard Saint-Germain.”Barriers and police cordons prohibit the entrance and the surroundings of the building, allowing only the personalities to pass. Aurore has never felt so rejected as at this precise moment. Until then, she had not become aware of her marginality. His pain is all the more acute. She prefers to go home to hide her tears“, writes his mother.
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“The funeral procession wandering through Paris looks like a Grand Guignol“
Access to her funeral, on November 13, 1991 at the Père-Lachaise cemetery, will also be refused to Aurore Drossart, who was “called a liar“at school when she mentioned Yves Montand and to whom a family photo”tear out the guts“even today. But she made up her mind:”Crying on the grave of a man who has never had a gesture or a word of love for you, who has always refused to know you, who finally rejected you, that has something indecent about it; it would be giving him too good a gift to let tears fall on the wood of his coffin. He didn’t deserve it“, asserts Anne Drossart. The latter also has a very particular opinion on the event: “The funeral procession wandering through Paris looks like a grand-guignol that the Montand I had known would certainly not have liked – he had a horror of funerals and the demonstrations that accompany them..”
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“All that’s missing are jugglers and bear trainers!“
But it is not finished : “This demonstration is grotesque, totally lacking in dignity and simplicity – starting with the monstrous reproduction, in red and white flowers, of the poster for his show at Bercy, the size of which is more than disproportionate in relation to the vehicle which supports it. . All that’s missing are jugglers and bear trainers!” Mass has been said.
