Like thousands of workers, Jeannette is part of this “France that gets up early” – and even very early!
– dear to a former President of the Republic.
Originally from Congo Brazzaville, this 62-year-old woman does indeed, from seven o'clock in the morning, cleaning in one of the most prestigious French institutions: the National Assembly.
Mother of seven children (five of whom live in the Congo), Jeannette carries out her daily tasks – cleaning public toilets and twelve MPs' offices – after more than an hour and a half of public transport.
And this, "that it sells, that it snows or that it rains".
But above all, despite a salary that barely allows her to survive: “The girlfriends think that I am well paid because I work in the National Assembly, but no, she regrets.
We are in "the house of the law" but we are poorly paid".
Housekeeper and "star" of the big screen
"Nobody knows us, we work in the shadows," adds Jeannette.
Which is no longer entirely true as far as she is concerned, since she was one of the “stars” of the documentary
Debout les femmes!
, by François Ruffin and Gilles Perret… And that she even, on this occasion, took part in the last Cesar ceremony.
Accompany her in her daily professional life thanks to this video from our partner Brut.
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