"The age of wisdom": Guillaume Canet posts a photo of his mother for his 80th birthday

“Happy birthday to my darling mom!!!”, he wrote enthusiastically.

Guillaume Canet celebrated in his Instagram story the 80th birthday of his mother Marie-Antoinette, Sunday September 11.

For the occasion, the director, usually discreet about his private life, published a vintage photo of his mother, immortalized when she was younger.

We see the latter posing in a fitted plaid dress, a scarf around her neck.

“80!!!

continued the actor in the caption of the post.

The Age of Wisdom.”

Originally from Oran, Marie-Antoinette once bred horses with her husband Philippe Canet, near Rambouillet, where they had settled as a family.

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Guillaume Canet has published a vintage photo of his mother, on the occasion of the 80th birthday of the latter.

(Posted on September 11, 2022.) Instagram screenshot/@guillaumecanetofficiel

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“I grew up in stables”

Now an emeritus rider – he notably won the Renault Rent prize in July 2017 – Guillaume Canet confided in his clan and his equestrian beginnings in an interview dated 2007, granted to

.

“My father was a real estate agent, he converted to horse breeding, he said then.

We grew up in a suburban residence where all the houses are identical, until the day when my father took us to a large field of rapeseed and said to us: "Here, now we live there."

Before adding: “I grew up in stables.

I was a rider until my accident, and I really wanted to do my job.

My mother raised us, my two sisters and me.

She was an antique dealer, a tennis teacher, she did a lot of things.

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, in theaters on February 1, 2023.