Sailor Maud Fontenoy grew up on a boat.

With her family traveling the world, she benefited from homeschooling to senior year.

Guest of the Anne Roumanoff show "It feels good", Maud Fontenoy looks back on what this experience has brought her, positive and negative.

INTERVIEW

Spokesperson for the UNESCO Oceanographic Commission, Maud Fontenoy publishes 

Bleu, an ocean of solutions.

A book of which Yann Arthus-Bertrand signs the photos and where she explains the riches of the ocean.

The sailor knows her subject well, having spent her childhood and adolescence on the family boat, where her parents taught her.

She therefore tells Anne Roumanoff how this experience influenced her relationship with others.

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The one who is also an ambassador to the Ministry of National Education and Youth for sea education went for the first time to a classroom at 17, in terminal.

“It was horrible,” she recalls.

"I was very, very intimidated by the outside world."

So much so that Maud Fontenoy fainted when a teacher asked her a question for the first time.

"Another relation to adults" 

The sailor today speaks of this late arrival at school as a "challenge", when she suddenly had to learn the codes of a new world.

“I was a bit like a little black ant in an anthill of red ants,” she says. 

But the sailor also talks about all the positive aspects of having had school at home.

According to her, it brings other things to the children.

"It gives you autonomy and the desire to follow your dreams to the end. And the relationship with adults is really very different, equal to equal."

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Maud Fontenoy's parents were thus an example for her.

"Seeing them go against preconceived ideas and surpass themselves to finally achieve their projects, that teaches a lot of things."

Maud Fontenoy has also kept certain habits taken with her parents to pass them on to her own offspring.

Just as she called her parents by their first name, her children call her indifferently "Maud" or "mother".