This Thursday, May 21, François-Xavier Demaison is on display in So closebroadcast on TMC. When he is not kept in Paris for work, the actor likes to return to his refuge in the Pyrénées-Orientales. And imagine that he is not the only one to have been seduced by the Occitanie region!
A refuge in the middle of nature. After spending his young years in New York, then living in Paris, François-Xavier Demaison was in search of a calmer life. A few years ago, the actor – who stars in the film So close broadcast on TMC this Thursday, May 21 – acquired a house in the Pyrénées-Orientales. It is in the charming medieval village of Thuir, located between the Aspres massif and Perpignan, that the actor and his wife Anaïs set down their suitcases. ” We have a house just outside Thuir and we are very happy there. We live with three horses, two dogs, two cats. We have a little green around us and it feels good », assured François-Xavier Demaison to our colleagues of France Bleu.Â
A department which was not chosen at random, since his wife is originally from the Catalan Country. HAS” I fell in love with my wife Anaïs and, at the same time, with this region. Anaïs is Catalan and she is very attached to her land. So I don’t really have a choice “, he quipped ironically, in the columns of Parisianin 2023. Between Paris and Thuir, the comedies you will find are balanced: « We are infinitely lucky to live here in Thuir, with people who have nothing to do with my job. We share time with people who feel good about themselves, who have a beautiful philosophy of life based on simplicity. This gives a bipolar rhythm: strong activity in Paris between theater, films, series, shows and a life in Thuir where we slow down time and where we drown in wonderfully everyday issues. I like it a lot “, he assured the daily newspaper.
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Mathilde Seigner, Denitsa Ikonomova… These other personalities seduced by the Pyrénées-Orientales
François-Xavier Demaison is not the only one to have set his sights on Occitanie and more particularly the Pyrénées-Orientales. After several years in Paris, Mathilde Seigner also decided to move to the south of France, with her partner Mathieu Petit and their son Louis. HAS” I bought a house in the south. I’m going to take advantage of it, arrange it and simply live there“, she confided to the magazine The two of us in 2022. According to the media Ladiesshe explained “ moitié-moitié» between Paris and Occitanie. Emblematic figure of Dancing with the starsDenitsa Ikonomova has now “ un pied-à -terre» in the south of France, with her partner François Alu and their baby. On Instagram, his subscribers were able to see some snippets of his house in the Provençal style, typical of the region. In addition to benefiting from a large garden, its property offers breathtaking views of the Canigó peak, the easternmost high peak of the Pyrenees. HAS” I manage to expand time. I don’t know if it’s from looking at this magnificent Canigó, the sun, the sympathy of the people, the delicious food, but I feel so good here that we chose to give birth to our child there. “, confided François Alu to The Independent in 2024.
Mathieu Madénian, for his part, lives in a house in Collioure, voted the French’s favorite village in 2024. In this region of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, the man who recently became a father has a home -earth, “ spring of march », révélait-il à nos confrères de Télématin in 2022. There’s my house at the end there! “, he confided, not a little proud, while a photo of his village was broadcast during Julia Martin’s weather forecast.
For him, living in Collioure allows “ disconnect and live in slow motion “, he explained to Parisian in 2024. The comedian, who was born and raised in Perpignan, has many memories in the city of painters. HAS” This village is my whole childhood. We took the girls here to flirt, it’s probably where I gave my first kiss, but also where I had my first hookup. It’s our very own Saint-Tropez! “, he continued to the daily newspaper.
