Alongside Marcel Amont since 1977, Marlène Laborde has always been present and their love has not aged a bit despite the years that have passed. But who is this sparkling and discreet woman?
It was during an evening organized by her that Marlène Laborde met Marcel Amont, at the cabaret in La Baule Escoublac. The 47-year-old singer is already famous, and preoccupied with other family worries, he barely notices the pretty blonde in her thirties who makes sure he lacks nothing. A romance is already on the way.
Nurse, agent, Marlène Laborde watched over Marcel Amont until the end
The day after this first evening, Marcel Amont offers Marlène Laborde a “plane ride”, but that’s not what seduces her at home. “You didn’t impress me with your first flight. I just found you funny and cultured” entrusted to him much later the one he married in second marriage a year and a half after their first meeting, at the town hall of the 15th arrondissement of Paris. Settled since then in the Aspe valley, the two spouses have never left each other until the singer’s death on March 9, 2023 at the age of 93. “When I met Marlène, I was 47. She was the one who arranged everything in our house and who fell in love with the Aspe valley. She fitted out my family’s old barn” he confided a few years ago on the set of France Sunday.
Sometimes nurse, sometimes agent, Marlène Laborde not only arranged their house: she also helped Marcel Amont in the writing of his books, and raised their two common children, Mathias and Romélie. “I’ve always wondered what drove an elegant 30-year-old woman to go so far by my side” was surprised Marcel Amont, who marked French musical history by crossing it for six decades, his last album dating from 2018. In 2020, the singer and actor explained in the columns of Parisian, “I realize that I am a survivor with Hugues Aufray and Juliette Greco my friends, but as long as I can sing I will sing.