Line Renaud: "I spent my life saying" why not? "»»

To launch Sidaction 2021, France 2 broadcasts, Saturday March 27, a program entitled "Thank you Line", in tribute to the commitment of Line Renaud in the fight against AIDS for thirty-five years.The singer and actress was one of the first, in the world of the spectacle, to mobilize to help researchers and demonstrate compassion and solidarity with the sick.The opportunity to meet this artist with an international career, aged 92, and go up with her the course of her memories.

I would not have got there if ...

If I had not one day met Loulou Gasté, this magician who was the man of my life.I was 17 years old, he was 37, and we lived together for fifty years.In reality, the story had started long before since it was the idol of my childhood.And she continues today, twenty-six years after his death, because he continues to guide me on a daily basis.I constantly question him: "What would you do, Loulou?What decision would you make in my place?"And I watch the signs: a rainbow, a swallow, the number 8, an expression that was familiar to us ... There was so much complicity between us that I just have to be careful.It gives me strength.And that leaves me no doubt that I will find him one day.As I will find my mother, my grandmother, my great-grandmother.

These three women who were so decisive in your childhood in the North?

These women who have raised me.Poor, worthy, courageous.With natural nobility and elegance which, I assure you, forced respect.My favorite was a memorial, this great-grandmother whose bed I shared, little girl, and to whom I asked every night, in the secret of our room, to tell me about her life."But you know her by heart!"She protested."Please," says again! "»»

And my imagination immersed this painful life began in 1867 and marked by the death of his own mother, the remarriage of his father with a widow who had seven children, the blows and the mistreatment of the stepmother who did not give him foodthan the remains;The work at the spinning, at 7 years old, where his small body sneaned under the loom to reconnect the broken wires;And then the holding of an estaminet with a drunk husband who often beat her.

Then there was a grandmother, who had suffered the shame of being a mother daughter at 17, and had to wait for the father's military service return in 1906 to finally get married and erase "the fault".This tram driver in Armentières was of fierce jealousy and could not bear the idea that his wife was exposed in family cafe to the eyes of other men.So in the evening, he beat her.She had to leave the coffee and settled as a seamstress in a neighboring coron to make her peace.

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