Jean-Louis and Nadine Trintignant have long embodied a symbolic couple for French cinema. Their love story lasted almost twenty years.
When they meet at the end of the 1950s, Jean-Louis and Nadine Trintignant indulge in a passionate love. At the time Jean-Louis Trintignant came out of a first marriage and a brief relationship with Brigitte Bardot. Nadine Marquand (her maiden name) is also in the world of cinema. First an editor, she became a director. They meet for the first time thanks to Annie Fargue, an actress friend who is rehearsing a play with Jean-Louis Trintignant. They do not start a relationship right away, as both are already engaged in other romances.
It is only when they meet again during an evening with friends that the current passes. Even very well, they spend hours chatting and fall in love very quickly. In 1961, they married. They will have three children together, Marie, Pauline and Vincent.
In 2021, Nadine Trintignant published the book Is it for life or for a while?, an autobiographical story that notably traces his story with Jean-Louis Trintignant. She revealed there fiery love letters that her ex-husband sent her at the beginning of their relationship. “All my dreams, all my thoughts are for you. Your soul, I love it too but I was able to take it with me”, wrote the actor to his dear and tender.
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A love story marked by ruptures
This relationship between Jean-Louis and Nadine Trintignant is intense but also subject to turbulence. The first is the loss of their second daughter, Pauline, who died at the age of 10 months after suffocating. A drama that will mark the couple.
The couple also saw a short separation, when Jean-Louis Trintignant saw a romance with Romy Schneider. But after three months of relationship with the actress, his love for Nadine will push him to come back to her to live a second adventure together.
Nadine Trintignant passes over this infidelity but their union ends up breaking up again. Nadine Trintignant leaves the actor for the director Alain Corneau. The latter will even end up legally adopting Marie and Vincent Trintignant.
These ordeals forged the former spouses but also left important scars. “I knew him between his 22 years, 38 years, 40 years, I do not know, it was youth. There were obviously cracks, we lost our two daughters. It’s cracks that we never get rid of”, entrusted Nadine Trintignant to the BFM TV channel during the tribute she delivered to the one she loved so much.
Indeed, despite their divorce, the two ex-spouses remained united and united until the death of Jean-Louis Trintignant. All the more so when they lost their daughter Marie Trintignant, victim of the blows of her companion Bertrand Cantat. This drama will push them to support each other to get the truth about the death of their eldest daughter.
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