PPDA interview: literary romanticism that strikes the eardrums

Bruno Donnet 09:48, March 20, 2023

Every day, Bruno Donnet observes media releases. This Monday morning, he chose to tell us a word from Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, whose very last public appearance left him stunned.

It happened last week, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor agreed to grant a filmed interview to a certain William Theviot, who broadcast it on his YouTube channel, and in which we discover the former presenter of the 20 hours of TF1, talking about a whole bunch of subjects, and especially about the time, which he no longer likes much: "Today, there is a kind of common mold, it looks like in English the main stream, in which everyone rushes and I think it's a shame. "

The very last time we saw PPDA speak publicly was just two years ago, in March 2021, on the program Quotidien, where he spoke about his past relationships with women: "There were sometimes little kisses on the neck, or sometimes small compliments, or sometimes charm or seduction, this behavior today is no longer accepted by the younger generations. "

But since then, for two years, nothing. Radio silence. Patrick Poivre d'Arvor had not appeared anywhere.

It must be said that a series of testimonies and complaints accuse him of sexual assault and rape. And in total, it is today a collective of 90 women, 90, who testify against him: "My name is Charlotte Crein, I filed a complaint against PPDA for sexual assault, the facts date back to 2014. "

On May 10, Médiapart broadcast a long program in which 20 women, often on the verge of tears, came to say, one after the other, what they reproached the journalist: "My name is Justine Ducharne, I am director of communication and former journalist, I filed a complaint against PPDA, uh, for rape and a rape that took place in 1995 in his TF1 office and I was 19 years old. "

Asked by Mediapart to react to these accusations, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor had preferred to decline the invitation, as he has declined all the other media solicitations that have been made to him for two years.

But last week, he said yes to William Theviot who was visibly delighted to interview PPDA: "So hello Mr. Patrick Poivre d'Arvor. Thank you very much for this interview. »

So William Theviot has a little particularity: he is autistic Asperger and he is used to inviting personalities to discuss with them their relationship to music or literature: "I am really very moved especially since there are several tropisms that bring us together and that's why I wanted to meet you. "

He therefore chose to interview Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, without asking him any questions about the facts of which he is accused.

It is a choice, which raises the now famous problem of the difference between the man in his private life and the artist, you know that PPDA also claims the quality of writer, a choice that William Thevot claims.

Either. But Patrick Poivre d'Arvor knows perfectly well what he is accused of today. He knows that 90 women accuse him of abusing or raping them.

And guess what was discussed at length in the interview he attended? From the question of romanticism! So be careful, it was literary romanticism because Patrick Poivre d'Arvor said it, bluntly: "It's really a major literature for me, very important."

He loves this literary trend! Moreover, it allowed us to learn a little more about his personality and his great sensitivity: "I have the Slavic soul. The Slavic soul is indeed sinusoidal, with great moments of passion and great moments of despondency. »

And yes, Patrick has a Slavic soul and he is passionate.

So by evoking romance, PPDA knows perfectly well what it is doing. He knows that behind the literary current, it is of course the word, in its classical sense, that will strike our eardrums.

He knows that he is accused of having been guilty of behaviors that are everything, absolutely everything, except romantic.

I do not know if this is denial, cynicism or perversity, but Patrick Poivre d'Arvor obviously takes infinite pleasure in evoking, very long in this interview, his taste for romanticism.

When you are accused of sexual violence by the trifle of 90 women, it is not trivial.

Patrick Poivre d'Arvor is nevertheless still presumed innocent. We already knew that. We learn today that he is, too, presumed romantic. Who would have thought!