Nadine and Jean-Louis Trintignant, their first meeting with Match
In 1958, Nadine and Jean-Louis Trintignant gave our magazine a first meeting … With Rétro Match, follow the news through the archives of Paris Match.
The first time that Match meets Jean-Louis Trintignant, in December 1958, the actor has finally found the boards. Revealed to the general public as a stunned lover of Bardot in Roger Vadim’s “Et Dieu … created the woman” in 1956, Trintignant had to put his career on hold for two years to perform his military service with the 1st Regiment of the train. Our photographer François Gragnon, who was waiting for him when he left the Dupleix barracks in Paris, follows him to his dressing room at the Théâtre des Mathurins, on the mirror of which he has written “Long live the keel!” “…
“The Trintignant soldier leaves a uniform for two costumes”, title Match in its number 511, which writes: “A young girl who dreams and who will find herself in life in front of the double of the character of her dreams. This is the theme of The Prince of Paper, the charming and poetic play by Jean Davray, novelist turned playwright. On the Mathurins stage, Jean-Louis Trintignant, for his return to school, after two years of military service, plays two roles at the same time: the “paper prince” comes out of the imagination of the heroine, the romantic Cécile, and the flesh-and-blood man who will arise, shattering the dream. It is Jacques Charron who staged this play where reality and fiction come together and to which the blue jeans generation is applauding. “
Trintignant, who has just blown out the candles on his 28th birthday, will also open to our reporter the doors of the small apartment he shared with Nadine Marquand, the woman of his life …
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Nadine Trintignant is in Match this week (n ° 3784). Together, they have almost twenty years of intense love, shot five films, had three children and lived through the impossible: the death of two of them. In “Is it for life or for a while?” », The author and filmmaker unreservedly delivers intact memories. She publishes passionate and sensual letters from her first husband, whom she portrays as a complex being, loyal and lying, gentle and cruel, in love but too fickle. In the autumn of their existence, a tender bond still unites them.
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