For the general public Jean-Claude Drouot is and will remain Thierry la Fronde, the young nobleman, who at the start of the Hundred Years War, will fight with as much courage as panache against the English and the Burgundians, then the irreducible enemies of the kingdom. of France.
For his admirers who know his talents as a theater actor, he played for more than sixty years of career such famous people as King Lear, Alceste, Ruy Blas and Cyrano.
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Today, Jean-Claude Drouot plays with a grace that belongs only to him in his 82 spring. And like Victor Hugo, who in 1877 published
The Art of being a grandfather
, a collection of poems inspired by the love he had for his grandchildren, the actor, grandfather and great-grandfather a father overflowing with affection for his numerous descendants, he decided to adapt the Lucernaire theater, the masterpiece of humanity by the author of
Les Misérables
and
Notre-Dame de Paris
. Because, for Jean-Claude Drouot,
The Art of being a grandfather
will have been for Victor Hugo the ultimate means of surviving after the death of his daughter Léopoldine in 1843, then the madness which struck his daughter Adèle in 1872.
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By a curious mimicry, Jean-Claude Drouot, who lost his wife three years ago after sixty years of common happiness, found in Hugo's poems a lifeline.
This actor passionate about the theater now wants to bequeath all his knowledge and his humanity.
And it is no coincidence that, at the very moment when he took over the text of the great Victor at the Lucernaire, the cinematographic association Les Treize Desserts, hosted by Rémi Prosper and Murielle Charlot-Dorée has just unveiled a biographical film as original as well documented on the life and passions of Jean-Claude Drouot.
Reservations: The art of being a grandfather of Victor Hugo at the
Lucernaire
played and directed by Jean-Claude Drouot, 53 rue Notre-Dame des Champs Paris VIe, until January 2, 2022
Jean-Claude Drouot, in the footsteps of Charles Dullin
, film produced by the Treize Desserts association