Bernard Tapie made his return on television in the show "Au Tableau! ", Saturday night, on C8. The 75-year-old businessman, who is struggling against stomach cancer, answered the children's questions with his legendary verve.

He had not been seen on television since an interview with France 2 in November 2017. Bernard Tapie, who has been fighting cancer for a year and a half, played the game of "Au Tableau! "Broadcast Saturday night on C8, answering questions from schoolchildren in Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis.

In the sequence recorded mid-October, the former boss of the OM appears weakened physically but his legendary verve remains intact.

"Cancer is a fight"

Asked about his relationship to death and his cancer, the 75-year-old businessman reversed his reaction the day he learned of his illness. "To give up is absolute death. Cancer is a fight, " exclaimed Bernard Tapie, going as far as schematizing cancer cells on the blackboard.

"You must never give up!" Bernard Tapie returns to his cancer #AuTable pic.twitter.com/VKDZZszV5O

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He then climbed up and down a class chair several times to get the kids into physical activity.

Tonight a big television moment on @ C8TV at 9pm! #OnTable with a Bernard Tapie like I've never seen it !!!
A must see ! pic.twitter.com/lHowdYz765

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The former facilitator also firmly stated that he was not afraid of death. Then he gave his young interviewers a short lesson in life: "Since you are lucky enough to be alive and healthy ... be happy," adding that you have to "believe in your destiny" and "The next day" .

"I'm not afraid of death."
Bernard Tapie will be in #AuTableau, Saturday at 21H on C8. pic.twitter.com/iaSSuToAI3

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His entry into prison

Bernard Tapie briefly discussed his time in jail for the match rigged between OM and Valenciennes. On February 3, 1997, when he entered the detention center, he remembered only one thing: the prisoners chanted his name.

"I became their hero like the spectators of the velodrome stadium , " he says in front of the classroom, before cutting the conversation: " So the story that the great of this world sent me to prison, it did not make me a problem .

Charge against the FN

For the former Minister of the City of the Bérégovoy government, " politics is an abandonment of one's personal case for the benefit of the community" . If we had to redo it ? "I will not do it again. But now that I've done it, I do not regret it. "

In 1994, he said: "If you think Le Pen is a bastard, then those who vote for him are also bastards. With regard to these remarks, Bernard Tapie persists and signs. "I think so" explaining that the National Front could not "spend its time delivering messages that denounce situations [...] It is a party that provides no solution".

"The FN brings no solution." Bernard Tapie #AuTable pic.twitter.com/sapmX5Vc4l

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Bernard Tapie's passage "Au Tableau! " Ended on a touch of sweetness. One of the girls on the show gave her a stuffed fox. The opportunity for the fallen prince of French football to tell the time he tamed a fox.

Bernard Tapie tells how he tamed a fox #AuTable pic.twitter.com/DtQi82S9Zw

- C8 (@ C8TV) November 17, 2018