To be in a relationship, should we laugh at the same things? That’s what France Gall seemed to think. So, when she meets Julien Clerc, the singer tests him on what makes him laugh, or not.
If for 17 years, Julien Clerc spins the perfect love with Hélène Grémillon, he previously formed couples for the less media and glamor. The singer, now 73, can indeed boast of having seduced exceptional women. Like France Gall. It was at the beginning of the 1970s. Julien Clerc’s career was then on the rise since he was the star of the French version of the musical. Hair. At that time, France Gall was going through a very painful period, since she was in the middle of the desert on a professional level.
In 2018, France Gall left. Julien Clerc, who had a hard time recovering from their separation at the time, had a thought for his youthful love. “France, we were 20 years old, joys and sorrows. A part of my life goes with you“, he wrote, on Twitter, shortly after the announcement of the death of the singer. Facing Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine in 6 at home, Julien Clerc returned to his meeting with France Gall.
“Quite a test”
The singer says that the latter made him pass a kind of love compatibility test. “One day she pulled me into her apartment and she started asking me questions about what made me laugh. And apparently I found out afterwards, what made her laugh, it was Guy Bedos and Sophie Daumier“, says Julien Clerc. So the singer had to respond to “quite a test” in particular on Guy Bedos, to see if they would laugh at the same things together.
A story “extraordinaire”, in the words of Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine, who shows that at a time when love compatibility tests were not yet legion, France Gall already had good ideas to get a first opinion. The little story does not say if Julien Clerc had succeeded, but to believe the following (the couple lived a romance of four years), he should not have come out too badly.
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