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Faustine Bollaert and Maxime Chattam have chosen to live far from Paris. It is notably in their isolated house, surrounded by nature, that the successful author writes his books. A camera was able to enter his office. A magical space where skeletons rub shoulders with Haribo candies or fluorescent jellyfish. Welcome to this tender museum of horrors.
Welcome to the house of Faustine Bollaert and Maxime Chattam: a camera was able to enter their very special lair
It was in a show with a title that seemed predestined that Maxime Chattam and: And if that was happiness. Faustine Bollaert, who hosted this program broadcast on Europe 1, chose to invite the author of the successful novel. “I invited him because I wanted to know what was hidden behind the pen of this writer, a pen that I found fascinating. I discovered an equally fascinating man“, she confided on the same channel to Isabelle Morizet in April 2021, returning to this meeting.
The world of Chattam’s novels is certainly fascinating. Books that we have just discovered he wrote in an extraordinary office…
The host of It starts today on France 2, her husband and their two children Abbie, born in 2013, and Peter, in 2015have chosen to live in peace, in Chantilly, a town in Oise located around sixty kilometers from Paris. We already knew that they had something special linked to the . However, cameras have now penetrated there and what they show is beyond imaginable…
Faustine Bollaert’s husband’s office looks like a museum of horrors
For a year, the novelist Paul Joubert has devoted himself to a second occupation: on Instagram, via his account Roughly speakingit allows Internet users to discover inside the places where novelists work in short videos titled: In the writers’ office.
Thursday, November 21, his camera was able to invite itself into that of Maxime Chattam. The result is striking. The author’s lair – invites you on a journey through time, imagination and magic.
In a long room which looks more like a cabinet of curiosities or a small museum of horrors than a work space, there are objects as heterogeneous as a doll that looks like it came from the movie Chuckyarmor wearing a hat or countless skeletons. One, inside which a lamp shines, serves as a lampshade. On the neck of another, who seems straight out of a biology laboratory, hang countless badges that this prestigious guest must wear every time he goes to an event. The effect is comical and all the more striking as the skeleton smokes a cigar and wears a cap. A little further away, on a wall, there is also the bony anatomy of a man: a real passion.
In a jar, the language from the movie Alien!
To complete the horrific aspect, we find a jumble of fluorescent jellyfish floating in a small jar, a spider, the language of the Alien from the film of the same name, preserved under glass, as is the hook belonging to the famous Captain.
Despite this atmosphere seeming to inspire terror, the place is particularly warm. Like a cocoon under the paneled roofs. Adorned as it should be with multiple bookcases, a cozy atmosphere emerges. No doubt due to the green or orange lights which filter the atmosphere, to these candles which burn here and there, or to these oriental rugs on the floor which give it a little softness.
Sweet too, this box of Haribo sweets, placed on a desk, a sign that . His office, on the other hand, is that of an adult who works a lot. A huge space behind which he sits in a large comfortable leather armchair. In front of him is a gigantic curved screen. This is where he put an end to his last novel, Prime Time, released on November 4 by Albin Michel
By seeing this man’s lair, we better understand Faustine’s words. “Fascinating”the word was even weak.
