Death of Jean Rochefort : a dad if accomplice of his daughter Louise – Gala

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Jean Rochefort died in the night from Sunday to Monday, the 9th October, at the age of 87 years. The father of five children from three different women (including actor Pierre Rochefort, son of Nicole Garcia), only one of them, Louise, the eldest of the two daughters he had with Frances, his last wife, has shared her passion of horse riding. Father and daughter were infinitely accomplices.

He said : “The horse has allowed me to avoid falling into the abyss of the ego due to the cinema “. Jean Rochefort, who has just died at the age of 87 years, said : “I picked up the Agricultural Merit to have been the origin of the first transplantation of embryos in the mare. I want it inscribed on my tomb. I have the histrionics post-mortem !“

This passion for the horse which he could not indulge for years, due to a herniated disc, Jean Rochefort continued to live through Louise, his daughter 27-year-old. “I recognize in it the ado shy than I was“, we had he entrusted to us.

Breeder of a dozen horses, Jean Rochefort attended the weekend, the equestrian competitions, the most important. And went to see Louise in the competition. It was even his most fervent supporter. Jean Rochefort and his wife, Frances (rider also) had met during a competition. Around the age of two years, Louise, is mounted on his pony and didn’t want to get off ! “I was thrilled, had commented Jean Rochefort, as her elders, and later his younger sister, have not hung. “He added : “I love that my daughter is an experienced rider rather than an actress, even if, of course, I would have left to follow his desires. I hadn’t raised the enthusiasm to the house when at the age of eighteen I told my father, who worked in oils, I wanted to be a comedian !”

Between Jean Rochefort and horses, though it was a story of atavism. In fact, his grandfather owned the cab horses at Dinan, in Brittany. But, kid, he preferred to run to their sides rather than the mount. It is up to thirty years, for the purposes of the film Cartridge, with Jean-Paul Belmondo, he had to cross over the cape. Subsequently, dressage, breeding, cavalier emeritus, Jean Rochefort, has just experienced. With Louise, he has shown himself, she said, ” an instructor is very strict, serious, so that outside, with the people, he jokes all the time ! “

The transmission is there. The name of Rochefort will always have a major place in the world of horse riding. Louise is now.

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