Résumé
Patrice Laffont, a famous French animator, has experienced financial difficulties at the end of life despite a long career and great notoriety on television.
Summary
This August 7 marks the First anniversary of the disappearance of Patrice Laffontessential figure of French television. Man of culture, humor and talent, he will have marked several generations of viewers, in particular thanks to cult programs like Figures and letters, Fort Boyard or Pyramid.
However, behind the smile and relaxation he posted on the screen, Patrice Laffont experienced an end of life marked by heavy financial difficulties. Déconaven, like those encountered by his father, the great publisher Robert Laffont.
A brilliant career, a modest life
Born in 1939, Patrice Laffont has spent more than fifty years on television sets. He was appreciated for his discreet elegance, his culture and his humor pinches-older. He helped shape a certain idea of French television entertainment, at a time when television was still a sacred family meeting. Through his programs, he was able to combine pedagogy and lightness, cultivating a sincere link with the public.
But despite this longevity and notoriety, The host has never been permanently enriched. In several interviews, Patrice Laffont had shown himself to be rare honesty on her finances. He said he had very little: no real estate, no significant savings, only his car and the strict necessary.
“I suck with money”: disarming sincerity
In the show Luxurya few years before his death, Patrice Laffont explained immediately: “We say that I am the son of Robert Laffont, a big publisher, but he never had a round of his life because he was not a manager … I am also an artist, so we do not have the sense of money. I never managed it, I have not the sense of possession. I have not bought anything, not even the apartment where I live, so I have no money!”.
Honest, the host who was not even the owner, had also said: “I have earned my life very properly and I do not complain. But I have always had a relationship with bizarre money, that is to say that I suck. I do not manage. At my age, very advanced, I have nothing, nothing … I spent my chilly chilly, I did not put anything aside and I regret it now”.
Words imbued with lucidity, but without bitterness. Patrice Laffont assumed her choices and flaws with a disarming franchise, refusing to hide behind the varnish of celebrity.
