“I have had several lives,”
Olivier Lorquin announces straight away as he welcomes us at the door of the Maillol Museum, which he directs.
The eldest son of Dina Vierny, who was the muse of the sculptor Aristide Maillol, is the guardian of the memory of this woman, who marked the history of art as well as that of the Resistance.
“We arrived here in 1955, in a small apartment, with my father, my mother and my brother.
There was still the Fountain of the Four Seasons,”
he remembers.
The cabaret founded by the Prévert brothers - Pierre and Jacques - of which Boris Vian, Guy Bedos and Jean Yanne were regulars, also welcomed Barbara as a... diver!
It is on one of the benches of this historic cellar on the left bank that Olivier Lorquin invites us to take a seat.
Ghosts surround us and shower us with kindness.
Culture lovers
The septuagenarian is making a dream come true: releasing his first album.
“My mother had a wonderful voice, we spent our time singing.
She was accompanied…
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