In the program "Historically yours", Stéphane Bern looks at the roots of an expression of everyday life.
Wednesday, he takes us at full speed on the road to knowledge, examining the phrase "in the car Simone!".
Stéphane Bern suggests every day, in
Historically yours
with Matthieu Noël, to discover these expressions that we use on a daily basis without necessarily knowing their origin.
Wednesday, he leaves on the hats of wheels at the origin of an expression from the automotive world: "in a Simone car".
In a little over a century, the automobile has left its mark in the French lagoon.
We can cite "drive like a foot", "at full speed", "on the hats", "push the mushroom", etc.
And one of them highlights a pioneer woman in the field, the expression "in the car Simone".
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Simone, pioneer and champion
To be completely complete, the entire phrase in question is originally "In the car Simone, it's me who drives, it's you who honk!".
The mysterious Simone is actually called Simone Louise de Pinet de Borde des Forest.
This woman, born in 1910, is a pioneer of the automobile.
Simone is indeed one of the first women in France to have her driving license, which she obtains at the age of 19.
The following year, we find her on the racing circuits, accompanied by another woman.
His co-pilot is none other than his mother.
Simone Louise de Pinet de Borde des Forest, who passed away in 2004 at the age of 94, has had a busy life.
During her career, she broke 24 world racing records.
She also drove a Red Cross truck during World War II and was the first woman to open a driving school.
An existence driven in the bottom of fifth grade which largely deserves that we forget the false idea according to which Guy Lux is at the origin of the expression "in the car Simone", which he regularly sent to the attention of his TV colleague Simone Garnier.