Saturday January 21, 2023, Maxime Chattam was invited on the set of Quelle époque, on France 2. Faced with Léa Salamé, the writer made rare confidences about his relationship with his wife, Faustine Bollaert.
The Evil Trilogy, the cycle of man and truth, Mortal Coma, The Illusion… Over the past few years, Maxime Chattam has released many best-selling crime novels. Since 2010, he shares the life of Faustine Bollaert. If the couple is very discreet, he indulged in a few confidences on the set of Léa Salamé. Saturday January 21, 2023, in Quelle époque, on France 2, it was while he was promoting his new novel The constancy of the predator, that Maxime Chattam indicated that his wife sometimes read excerpts from his books before they were published. “She’s not tough, she’s fair because she knows me better than anyone. She knows where my failings will lead me“, he confided.
In full transparency, the writer let it be known: “Me, I’m going to be a history obsessive, I’m going to want to tell the story, I’m going to want my subtext to exist without being too ubiquitous, I’m going to think about all those technicalities.“While Léa Salamé told him that Faustine Bollaert could tell him:”You’re having fun with this character, but you’re pissing me off!“, Maxime Chattam assured: “Yeah, she can say that, but above all, she’s going to bring me back to what is essential in a book before, the human being. Above all, she will say to me: ‘Ok, I see where you want to go, but I want this character to be denser, richer, more nourished.‘” Finally, the writer added: “This book, I remember that I saw her posing, thinking and looking at me… I said to myself, I know what she has just read, I know which chapter she has just read and it must be hard for a woman to say to herself, this is my guy, my big roudoudou in bed everything nice, very cute who wrote that.“
Faustine Bollaert: “He’s creepy, yes”
Saturday, November 12, the host was invited to the show We redid the TV, on RTL. Amused, she said:The other time, we were looking at Star Academy, and he was looking at an autopsy report for an upcoming book. I said to the children: ‘Don’t look at what dad is looking at, because there…’” Cash, Faustine Bollaert had added: “He is creepy, yes. However, he is really a man’s cream ” Not always understanding her husband, the star had slipped: “From time to time, I am a little decomposed and I still ask him the question: ‘But how can you write that?’ I find it hard to imagine sometimes that it’s the adorable, tender man I know who can write such horrors. Above all, how he can come down from his office after writing that, and find us to come and eat nuggets with the children. There are times, there is a little shock of cultures!“