Dn a dark and depressing time, there is a cure for gloom. “You have to laugh. With his lively and smiling tunes, Carlos, singer for the under-twenties, brings smiles back by talking about the weather, evoking his “papayou” or inviting the French to be “all naked, all tanned”. In 1992, in The Beach BarThierry Ardisson’s program – available on the INA ArdiTube site – the number one public entertainer looks back on his childhood spent on the Côte d’Azur.
Carlos, real name Jean-Chrysostome Dolto, grew up between Antibes and Juan-les-Pins, stronghold of the jet-set before the advent of Saint-Tropez. His father, a doctor, decided to buy the house of Baron de Ville-d’Avray, who was sick at the time. “My father will take care of him so well that the baron will live to be 97… For 22 years, we lived in the cellar of the house that we had bought”, laughs the singer, who explains that he was marked more by his father than by his mother, the famous psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto.
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“It was my father who directed my life. It’s not my mother. Everyone says I’m Françoise Dolto’s son, but my mother never did psychoanalysis with us,” he reveals. One day, his father goes fishing. The young child, he was then ten years old, did not wake up and tried to catch up with his father on his bicycle. “I rush to the port and I break my neck on the ramparts of Antibes. I fell six to seven meters and I see the film of my life in color. I saw myself dying. Eventually, I broke both legs. One of the consequences of this accident? “I got fat. I’ve got fatter. I don’t know if it’s glandular or psychosomatic. I was thin, I got greasy. Before declaring his love for the water: “I love the sea. When you’re in the water, it’s as if you were in your mother’s womb. Whatever he says, Françoise Dolto is never far away…
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