This Friday in C à Vous, Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine, troubled, mentioned her son while the conversation focused on the superstition around the number 13.
The number 13 worries some, it fascinates others. One thing is certain: a good part of the population does not remain indifferent to this number, which has had a sad reputation since Antiquity. Although the origins of the fear linked to the number 13 are unclear in people’s minds, this does not prevent the most superstitious from paying special attention to it. This Friday, January 13, many of them tried their lucke to gambling, since as Mohamed Bouhafsi said, “one in three French people think that Friday the 13th brings them luck“.
However, Patrick Cohen recalled that the fear of this enigmatic number was still relevant. “It’s very anchored, the 13th. I realized not very long ago that I live in a street in Paris where there is no number 13“, confides the journalist before continuing: “it goes directly from 11 to 15. There are a few streets like that where the owner, when dialing, must have said ‘no, no, no, I don’t want it to go through!’. There are a lot of 11bis. And there are also planes where there is no row 13“. And Pierre Lescure adds: “And there are many elevators where there is no floor 13“.
Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine: this false alert concerning her son
Revelations that did not reassure Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine, and this for a very specific reason. “I am very worried all of a sudden because my son was born on the 13th of the year 2013 and if it is, it was a Friday…” A fleeting thought formulated aloud which made his colleagues laugh. But let Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine be reassured: the date of birth of her son Vasco, namely June 13, 2013, falls on a Thursday! The 9-year-old boy therefore does not have to feel concerned by this ancestral superstition which seems to trouble his mother.