“I talk just as well with drunkards in a bar as with Prince Albert in Monaco”
Host and producer of many TV shows for almost 30 years, Patrick Sébastien has become an essential face of the French landscape, even when he dressed up as famous people. Originally from Corrèze, Patrick Sébastien retains a certain nostalgia for his childhood and has a real admiration for France in which he travels exclusively today.
Born a bastard in a small village
Patrick Sébastien was born in 1953 in Brive-la-Gaillarde. He then grew up in the small village of Juillac, about thirty kilometers from the sub-prefecture of Corrèze. Born out of wedlockthe “saltimbanque”, as he sometimes defines himself, remembers a difficult childhood because of his status: “To be born a bastard in a small village is anything but pleasant.“His mum works hard in an apple factory and so he is raised by his grandmother in Objat, also surrounded by four aunts.
childhood nostalgia
Despite the mockery of his comrades at that time, Patrick Sébastien retains a certain nostalgia for his childhoodBetween “the smell of hay” and walks along the rivers as a “recess after school“. He recognizes with a smile that morals were also lighter: “There was only that to do. There was no Netflix!“
The life of Patrick Sébastien in the Lot
Although he owns a house in Boulogne-Billancourt in the Hauts-de-Seine and offices in Paris, Patrick Sébastien put down his suitcases in Martel in the Lotin the middle of a large piece of land he bought”a pittance at the time“. He readily admits it: “I absolutely wanted to be in the middle of 35 hectares so as not to have neighbors.” Indeed, we would not suspect it but Patrick Sébastien appreciates above all “silence, tranquility“.
Moreover, after spending 30 years traveling the world, the animator-writer-director only travels to France today. If we put aside his claustrophobia, the artist enjoys himself between our borders, because “it pays off!“.
Be able to talk to anyone, anywhere
The strength of Patrick Sébastien according to him: his love for people. While he was considering a period of settling in Nouméa, New Caledonia, he did an about face. “I realized that it was Châteauroux-sur-Mer in fact, that people are still people.“, he explains. In summary, why go thousands of kilometers to find what we also have at home?
Patrick Sébastien loves human contact and therefore does not attach importance to the place where he meets nice people. He affirms it:That is to say that I can very well discuss with drunkards in a bar until 6 o’clock in the morning, and with Prince Albert in Monaco, at the Bal de la Rose.“A big difference of which he is proud and which he realizes”without ever the slightest a priori“.