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Faustine Bollaert is a woman with a busy schedule. The host is in fact always on several projects at the same time for France Télévisions. She is especially a hit of course on a daily basis on France 2 with her testimonial show It starts today. A full professional life for which she goes to Paris but, when she is not filming, Faustine Bollaert settles a few kilometers from the capital, not far from Chantilly, in the commune of Oise.
It is with her husband Maxime Chattam and their two children (Abbie, born in 2013 and Peter, born in 2015), that she settled in the region and found her balance. There, the couple who had been in love for many years found each other a large house located in the countryside and even isolated, not far from the forest. “We live in a very dark place, close to a forest, a little scary“, she admitted on the microphone of Europe 1. And added: “I don’t open to anyone after midnight!“
Besides the slightly scary atmosphere outside at night, it’s the inside of the house that is no less strange. Indeed, Faustine Bollaert and Maxime Chattam have never hidden being fans of gothic and dark worlds. Thus, we find innumerable very surprising trinkets among them, such as an Egyptian mummy, a stuffed crow and a wolf or even a skull. So many things that inspire the writer for his successful dark novels.
Paradise for children by Faustine Bollaert and Maxime Chattam
Faustine Bollaert’s home nevertheless remains warm and has become over time a real playground for children thanks in particular to a games room with billiards, table football, arcade machines, musical instruments and games. entire walls of board games. The tribe also has a cinema room. “We have a ritual on Friday evening: dinner around 7 p.m. so we can watch a film together, in our cinema room with armchairs and black walls. To access it, you have to pass by my collection of 9000 Blu-rays, classified by genre, like in the old video clubs“, Maxime Chattam told Parisian Weekend.
The couple therefore seems to have found the house of happiness but, for a while now, this residence has been at the heart of a big debate. In fact, Faustine Bollaert would like to part with it. “I always want to get closer to Paris. But, I have to sell the house, completely change my life and my husband doesn’t necessarily agree. So, we let ourselves be a little carried awayr”, she reported in an interview. To be continued…