Death of Clémentine Vergnaud at 31: new poignant photo of her wedding in hospital, with a guard of honor

Saturday December 23, 2023, we learned of the death at the age of 31 of journalist Clémentine Vergnaud whohas been battling bile duct cancer since June 2022. She made public, in a podcast published in the summer of 2023 entitled My life facing cancer: Clémentine’s diaryhis fight against cholangiocarcinoma, a very rare, aggressive and unfortunately incurable type of cancer.

Formerly a journalist for France Bleu Normandie, Clémentine Vergnaud then worked for the Franceinfo editorial team. On the subject of her fight, she confided at the time to our media colleagues Rawher reaction when she learned of her illness…”It surprised me quite a bit because I wasn’t necessarily very attached to my image. But I had this image of female cancer, the stereotype of which is: more eyelashes, more eyebrows, more hair. And I didn’t want to lose my hair because I felt like I was going to lose my identity in the middle of it all.” she declared, not without emotion.

A marriage “in extremis” for Clémentine Vergnaud and Grégoire Lecalot

Despite illness, Clémentine Vergnaud was able to marry her companion, the journalist Grégoire Lecalot, a few months before her death. On “I am devastated to learn of the death of ‘my twin from cancer’, Clémentine Vergnaud. I think of her husband Grégoire. She did me the honor a few weeks ago of attending their wedding in a small hospital room.“, he revealed. In 8:30 p.m. Sunday on France 2, Laurent Delahousse wanted to make a digression about Clémentine Vergnaud, on January 29, by revealing a photo of her wedding. In the black and white image, the journalist appeared sitting on a wheelchair, wearing a strapless white dress and wearing a headband with a bouquet of roses in hand. Grégoire Lecalot, her husband, stood behind her and looked at her, smiling. In an article from Parisian on the “marriages in extremis”a new photo of the lovers’ wedding was published on Saturday February 10.

In the article on “those couples who say ‘yes’ to each other on the verge of death”, our colleagues from Le Parisien were able to speak with Grégoire Lecalot about his marriage a few months before the death of his partner. The media writes: “These are intense moments of life, days of happiness torn from the harshness of the fight against illness.” And the journalist Grégoire Lecalot clarified: “Small administrative miracles for a paper-heavy country like France.” Every year, a few couples decide to get married in a hospital, even though one of the spouses has an incurable illness. The couple can then benefit from an accelerated procedure at the town hall in order to be able to celebrate their union very quickly.

To our colleagues at Parisianthe widower of Clémentine Vergnaud-Lecalot confided: “I, who was more of the type to brake with all four irons when faced with the institution of marriage, I said yes without hesitation. We gathered the papers during a period of total uncertainty about his survival, in seventy-two hours. doctors and elected officials were extraordinary, committed. The day of our wedding, less than a week later, we had this feeling of having come close to death. That day was a suspended moment. I remember Clémentine’s face, radiant, the guard of honor of the caregivers. There was a taste of eternity, a feeling of euphoria which gave the impression that we had life ahead of us.”. A nice photo was published by The Parisian on which we can see the very happy couple with Clémentine Vergnaud in her pretty white dress surrounded by her loved ones and caregivers.