The name of Bernadette Chirac has returned to the forefront in recent weeks with the release of the film Bernadette, starring Catherine Deneuve. A film which was preceded this Sunday, October 8, 2023, by a documentary on France 5 entitled The Revenge of Bernadette Chirac. It is also described how the former first lady always remained in the shadow of her husband as evidenced by a specific event in July 95.
For several weeks, the new film by Léa Domenach, Bernadette, is controversial on the web. Indeed, the director chose to deal with a media and political personality who has long been pushed aside for her husband, Jacques Chirac. A biopic not authorized by the family which was released on October 4 and in which Catherine Deneuve stars. A film which did not at all please the daughter of the person concerned, Claude Chirac, who admitted not having liked the comedy at all, indicating that Sara Giraudeau, the interpreter of her own role ” didn’t make him laugh“. She also denounced the presence of her older sister Laurence in the film, which she considered “immodest“, and even “displaced“.
A film which was followed by the release of a documentary on France 5 this Sunday October 8, 2023 entitledThe revenge of Bernadette Chirac. A documentary which also deals with the journey of the former ambassador of the Yellow Pieces operation, but also the difficulties she experienced integrating into a political world which was not the breast. It was also the screenwriter Clémence Dargent who noted a rather particular scene in this famous documentary.
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A first lady described as too “nerdy”
She recounts that during a garden party organized at the Élysée for July 14, 1995, Bernadette Chirac had to face a humiliation that she would not have accepted: “During this great popular celebration, Claude Chirac’s mother learned live that she was not at the president’s table“. A choice that we learned from her own husband, Jacques Chirac, and which greatly saddened the former first lady: “She understands that she was dismissed because it didn’t fit.» Explains the screenwriter.
A situation that the screenwriter explains by the fact that we “prefers the image of a president who surrounds himself with young people rather than flanked by his wife because it looks too old-fashioned“. What the journalist Erwan L’Éléouet later described as “first humiliation for her“. Fortunately, Bernadette Chirac was then able to assert herself, creating a shell for herself and assuming her role as first lady with force.
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