In the book of his mother Anne Drossart, Yves Montand, this child who held out her arms to youAurore Drossart looks back on her sometimes difficult childhood, when the star denied being her biological father. Tele-Leisure was able to read the book published on Thursday April 20, 2023 by L’Archipel editions, in which she shares the “taunts“who were targeting her.
Aurore Drossart is convinced of this: Yves Montand, a time lover of his mother Anne Drossart (whom he had met in the 1970s on the set of Vincent, François, Paul and the others of Claude Sautet), is his father. Justice, which the two women seized in 1989, gave them reason for a time in 1994, before biological examinations affirmed the opposite on appeal, in 1998. The case was finally closed in 2001, after the rejection of the appeal in cassation of Anne Drossart, who has an opinion on the funeral of her ex-lover. Mother and daughter, to whom a family photo “tear out the guts“today join their feathers in the book Yves Montand, this child who held out her arms to youpublished by L’Archipel on Thursday April 20, 2023 and that Tele-Leisure and lire.
“My mother having always designated me Yves Montand as my father, I had no reason to doubt it.“
In this work, in which Anne Drossard recounts the reaction “sickening” by Yves Montand on learning of his pregnancy, and that of his wife Simone Signoret on discovering their existence, the one who was born in 1975 returns to the many mockeries against her on the benches of the school, she who presented herself there as the daughter of Yves Montand, artist “haunted by the fear of aging“. “The mistress had given us forms to fill in, divided into two parts. One was for the father and the other for the mother. We had to fill in the gaps in the various boxes where we were asked to mention the surname, first name, address and profession of the parents. With the exception of the address, which I did not know, I felt no particular shame or embarrassment in indicating that my father was called Yves Montand and that he was an actor and singer. For me, it was a job like any other. My mother having always referred to him as my father, I had no reason to doubt it.“
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“There’s no meaner and more ruthless than kids this age“
It was without counting on his classmates: “I will never forget the taunts of my neighbors, who read over my shoulder what I had just written. There is no one more wicked and ruthless than kids of this age (…).“And the adults who supervised them were not left out:”Anyway, no one believed me, neither the teacher nor the school principal. They called me a liar. The following years, I hesitated a long time before filling in the famous boxes.” For his part, Yves Montand, who became Valentin Livi’s father in 1989 at the age of 67, has always denied being the biological father of Aurore Drossart.
