Rugby journalist from France Télévisions, struck by a recurrence of cancer last year, came to sign his book this Wednesday. Matthieu Lartot recounts his fight against cancer, a stubborn recurrence.
Last year, he swapped his right leg to save his skin, in a match against the disease which moved part of France and provoked tens of thousands of reactions. “It’s moving, the attendance is family, with people we’ve known for years,” confides Patricia, his mother, who taught for years in the Val-Fourré district. ‘I even met the doctor who managed his chemotherapy during his first cancer,’ says Matthieu's mother, Patricia, a teacher in Magnanville, a nearby town, and played rugby for AS Mantes, which his father Pierre chaired (2002 to 2017), is at home here. ‘We don’t amputate the heart’ is the title of his book.