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This passion for speed and the car could not escape her, incubated by her three pilot uncles who leaned over her cradle, since her birth, on December 11, 1930. Around her, her fairies are called Louis Trintignant, who kills himself with his Bugatti Type 35 during practice for the Picardie Grand Prix when Jean-Louis was three years old. There was also the other uncle, Henri, who ran the French Grand Prix in 1936. And, above all, Maurice, the one for whom the term gentlemen driver was invented, who entered 82 Grand Prix and won twice (with Ferrari and Cooper) the Monaco Grand Prix, which also won the 24 Hours of Le Mans, in 1955, with Ferrari, and the Argentine José Froilán González, “El Toro de la Pampa” sharing the wheel.