Firmine Richard, on the star trail (Rediffusion)

By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

What is intended for you, the current does not prevail, the actress Firmine Richard, with Jean-Philippe Zappa, has just appeared in the editions Michel Laffon. 

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She is a woman who believes in destiny. And the least we can say is that his did not seem drawn in advance. How this little Guadeloupean brought up by her docker mother and housekeeper, before landing in Paris to work at the Post Office or at the RATP, which did not always have an easy life, could suddenly - at the turn of the forties - see his name alongside that of Daniel Auteuil, at the entrance of cinemas? And how, aligning some success in the cinema, (Romuald and Juliette, 8 women, The First Star), on television and in the theater, and a lot of failures and disappointments too, how did she then navigate the not always calm, and even not always healthy, waters of the French artistic milieu. Firmine Richard tells us about it in an autobiography by which she says, she wants to "be useful", as Julien Clerc sings. "What is intended for you, the current does not prevail", by Firmine Richard, with Jean-Michel Zappa, was published by Michel Lafon editions.

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