Guest of the show "It feels good" on the occasion of the release of her new novel, "The aerostats", Amélie Nothomb tells the microphone of Anne Roumanoff the genesis of her passion for champagne, which began then that she was a child and on which she spends a good part of her copyright.

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"Champagne is really my pleasure".

Asked by Anne Roumanoff about her very shyness, the author Amélie Nothomb continued the conversation about champagne.

The elixir is not for her a remedy for stage fright, but a little happiness that she has been offering herself since she discovered it at 3 years old, as she explains in the program "It makes good".

"The goal of life is to drink very, very good champagne", philosophized the writer, who publishes "The aerostats", her new novel.

“And that's it: I earn copyright. So I spend almost all of it on champagne,” she quips.

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"A career as a half-glass bouncer"

And the meeting between Amélie Nothomb and sparkling alcohol started young: she was three years old.

She then tastes this "lemonade that makes adults happy" for the first time at one of her diplomatic father's receptions, where she slipped between the tables.

"I was not invited to the cocktails that my father constantly gave at home, but I was not excluded either," she laughs.

"So I would get on all fours and grab the glasses. That's where a great career as a half-glass bouncer began. I noticed at that point that the champagne and I were was a great love story. And it continues today. "

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A love story that continues a little more than three nights a week, since Amélie Nothomb concludes by explaining: "I made a rule for myself. Tea is every day, champagne is one day in. of them."

A consumption that is done exclusively after hours of writing his novels.