He has a dark, intense look that he planted in his interlocutor. And the verb that goes with it. No subtleties. A precise, sometimes fragile, affirming kind of natural authority. A powerful thing, especially for people who have almost no doubts. A common trait of the women in the family, she admits after dropping a line from her father, whom she adored. “Some of those men who have all the intellectual talents but no character”…
And Bam! As for him, Marie-Pierre de Cosse Brissac clearly did not inherit this paternal trait. The character, he undeniably still has today. The small flame of resentment he always has deep in his eyes proves it. And we can easily imagine in this elegant non-agenarian (she is 96 years old), who receives us in her living room on the rue Grenelle in Paris, the audacity of the young girl that she was. A young girl whose name always preceded him. A name that sometimes…
Source: Le Figaro
