The famous Russian writer Lev. Tolstoy wrote in his novel Anna. The opening words of Karenina read: "Happy families are all similar, and unhappy families have their own misfortunes." ”
In France, Chirac is regarded by the French as one of the most popular presidents. He was born in a wealthy merchant family, the only son in the family, very favored since childhood, tall and handsome, humorous and friendly, but also love culture and art, well educated, giving a very good impression.
In 1956, at the age of 24, Chirac married Bernadette, a beautiful woman born in Parisian high society, and Chirac both graduated from The Sciences Po. Whether from the family lineage, appearance and ability, they are a pair made in heaven, the key is that they are not family marriage, but free love and then enter the wedding hall.
The two people who are so right are simply the princes and princesses in the fairy tale, and they live a happy life.
After marriage, the Chirac couple had two daughters, both smart and beautiful, and the family of four lived an enviable life.
However, under the cloak of happiness lies how much unspeakable concealment, misfortune and pain.
Chirac once said: The most ashamed person in my life is my daughter, but the person I can't leave the most is also them.
Both of Chirac's daughters have experienced misfortune, and his father cannot escape the blame for such misfortune.
Eldest daughter Laurent
In 1959, Chirac's eldest daughter, Laurent, was born, as charming as her mother, and four years later, the second daughter, Claude, was born. The two sisters in childhood are bright and lively, and they are the pearls in the palm of their parents' eyes.
Under the influence of Chirac, his wife Bernadette also began to enter politics. The couple became a husband and wife in the political arena.
However, the more the Chiracs shine in politics, the more their daughters feel lost.
Of course, such a dazzling Chirac will naturally attract countless women, and he is also a mercurial person. When the wife Benadette is juggling family and career, she also has to take time out to deal with her husband's affair, and she is very busy!
Laurent had an extraordinary pair of parents, which made her anxious at this time. Because my father was too busy to go home and enjoy my parent-child time. Although the mother is not as busy as the father, she also has her own life and career, and she cannot focus all her attention on her daughters.
Emerson said, "The family is the kingdom of the father, the world of the mother, the paradise of the child." ”
A kingdom that lacks the love of a father, a world that mothers often cannot take care of, and home is not a paradise for daughters.
In the important stages of life, the father is repeatedly absent, and the sensitive and fragile Laurent will think wildly and fall into emotional dead ends. His fate changed significantly at the age of 15.
In 1975, Chirac became Prime Minister of France, and his career was full of success. However, he felt a little guilty, because he often had no time to take care of his wife and daughters, so he wanted to make up for it.
This summer, Chirac took his wife and daughters on a vacation to Corsica, and the family shared the joy of the world. It was here, however, that Laurent contracted meningitis and developed anorexia as a result.
Anorexia made Laurentine and lonely, and as her father's prestige and status grew, it also exacerbated her condition.
In front of people, in order to maintain her father and family honor, Laurent tried her best to behave normally, and ate about the same amount of food as ordinary people, but at home, she ate very little, or even could not eat. She is losing weight and becoming more vulnerable.
One day, while Walking in the back garden with her mother, Laurent and her mother heard someone talking about her in their garden, saying that she was skinny and terrible.
The fragile Laurent could not stand the gossip of others, and ran back to the room crying, because this fright made her condition more and more serious, physically and mentally vulnerable, she hid from people, wanted to disappear from the sight of others. This is why, in public, it is almost impossible to see The figure of Laurent.
In 1988, Chirac was still in his second term as Prime Minister of France, and his 29-year-old daughter, Laurent, did not want to live and tried to commit suicide, but was found in time and sent to the hospital for rescue. In order to prevent her from committing suicide again, the Chiracs were not allowed to hire a nurse to take special care of her.
However, various physical and mental illnesses caused by anorexia have long caused Laurent to suffer, and from time to time there are thoughts and behaviors of self-harm.
One winter night in 1990, Laurent couldn't sleep over and over, and in extreme pain, he took advantage of the nurse's dozing efforts to sneak out of the ward, jumped out of the window of the 4th floor hallway, and committed suicide again.
This time, Laurent still did not die, but the fall was not light, the head was injured, the pelvis was shattered and broken, and he had to sit in a wheelchair.
To be born is a hopeful thing. But for Laurent, life may be a painful thing.
As a father, Chirac certainly wanted his eldest daughter to live healthy and happy. However, for more than a decade, Laurent has become his heart disease, making the family very fragile.
Whenever he was uncomfortable, Chirac would say to his wife, "A father who fails to raise his child and takes good care of her will always have a deep sense of guilt." I can't be an exception. ”
This guilt has been with Chirac for the rest of his life.
In April 2016, Chirac's eldest daughter, Laurent, died of a heart attack at the age of 58.
Lorenz is finally relieved, while the Chiracs have to endure the pain of the white-haired man sending the black-haired man.
Perhaps, When Chirac thinks of his eldest daughter, he regrets that he did not accompany her to grow up bravely, and regrets that he did not give his daughter a healthy and happy life.
However, Chirac's second daughter Claude is different, she is very strong, she is his strongest backing, which may be an emotional compensation for him!
Second daughter Claude
Like his sister Laurent, Claude didn't have much time with his father as a child.
Claude also complains about her father, but she loves him and believes that politics stole him. Therefore, since she was a child, she made up her mind that if she wanted to see her father often, she could only enter his world, enter the political arena, and fight with him.
In 1988, unusually gray for the Chirac family, Lorenz committed suicide and Chirac lost his second presidential bid. However, in this dark moment, the younger daughter brought light to Chirac, and the father and daughter were closer than ever, and their feelings deepened.
At this time, Claude, who was only 25 years old, was becoming more and more like her father, with a sharp eye and a charm that exuded from his body.
One afternoon in 1989, Chirac suggested that his youngest daughter work for her, and Claude began to enter the French president's circle of power. He sent his right-hand man Nikolai. Sarkozy, the one who became President of France in 2007, helped his youngest daughter.
Claude and Sarkozy soon became good friends, and she regarded him as her political mentor.
In 1992, at the age of 29, Claude met Philip Abel, a young political commentator. The latter has a cheerful and humorous personality, and regards Chirac as an idol. The two soon fell in love, and it didn't take long for them to get married.
October 3, 1992, was a great day for the Chirac family, with more than 2,000 celebrities attending the grand wedding of Claude and Philip Abel.
However, the loving newlyweds lived happily for only half a year, and Chirac's young son-in-law committed suicide and Claude became a widow.
It turned out that in January 1993, Chirac supported ally Eduard Baradir as prime minister. However, the son-in-law lashed out at Edward Baradier in a television interview, saying that he was not a reliable person, which greatly angered the Chirac family, and the two sides quarreled fiercely.
Claude reprimands her husband, saying he doesn't recognize the situation and writes to Baradir to apologize.
His wife did not trust herself, and she scolded her to the point of spewing dog blood, and personally apologized to those she was not used to, which was not to punch herself in the face?
The husband and wife are inseparable.
Abel was angry, jealous, and deeply suspicious of his idol and wife, a collapse of faith.
On April 5, 1993, Abel committed suicide by taking medication in his bedroom and was found out of breath.
From the wedding to Abel's death, in just 6 months, Claude went from a happy new wife to a mournful widow.
When the bad news came, Chirac was shocked and deeply deplored. He also deeply realized that because of himself, his two daughters could not have a happy life for ordinary people.
If the son-in-law's judgment at the time was wrong, Chirac and Claude would have felt a little better, but the point was that it turned out that Abel's prediction was correct, and Chirac's wholehearted support of Valadir became his fierce rival on the road to presidential campaign.
Because the facts are in front of her, her husband's death becomes a lingering shadow of Claude, and she is bitter and guilty.
As a father, Chirac, knowing the source of his daughter's pain, blamed himself even more. Because he, the father, indirectly harmed the younger son-in-law, causing his little daughter to become a widow.
After all, Claude was a person several times stronger than her sister, and although her husband's death was painful, it did not shake her confidence in continuing to help her father ascend to the throne of power.
In 1995, after his third campaign, Chirac finally became president of France and became the home of the Elysées Palace, serving two terms. During his tenure, his youngest daughter gave him a lot of help, and Claude was once considered Chirac's "first high counselor".
Although Claude has achieved great success in his career, he is not very happy in life.
After her husband's death, Claude stopped talking about relationships for a while, and it wasn't until he was 33 years old that he began to talk to a man named Thierry. Rey's men get along. However, she has a lot of fears about marriage, and the two are not married, but give birth to a little boy named Martin.
Chirac loved this grandson very much.
In 1997, when the Paris tabloid published news of Claude's unmarried birth, Chirac advised his daughter to register her marriage as soon as possible to curb the spread of negative effects. However, Claude, who had lost faith in the marriage, rejected his father's advice.
Later, Claude breaks up with Rey, and she becomes a single mother, putting all her mind on her father and son and kidnapping herself without marriage.
In contrast, the youngest daughter Claude is much happier than the eldest daughter Laurent, has been married, has a career, and has a son, even now, is still very active in French politics.
For Chirac, though, he may be reluctant to make such a comparison.
Chirac in the French political arena, more than 40 years of ups and downs, 12 years as the president of France, is the French people like the president, his family is too much attention from the media and people, Laurent and Claude is the "first daughter" in people's eyes, but the identity of "first daughter" does not mean that everything is fine, they still have to experience the misfortune and pain that life should have.
It's just that Chirac can't let go of his life that a father feels deeply guilty about his daughters.