The enigmatic Anne Brochet publishes her sixth novel

By Léna Lutaud

Published on 03/28/2024 at 5:21 p.m., Updated on 03/28/2024 at 5:21 p.m.

“I came back to do theater once more and I rediscovered the joy of a child and of creation,” says Anne Brochet. Pascal Ito via Albin Michel editions

PORTRAIT – The actress, who played Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac by Jean-Paul Rappeneau, returned to France, notably to do theater. Le Figaro met her under Albin Michel’s glass roof for her novel L’Armoire de vies, a poetic and singular text.

It is moreover, as Pierre Bachelet would say. She was thought to be exiled under the Los Angeles sun, taking photos and writing books. Anne Brochet returned as discreetly as she left. At the start of spring, we meet her under Albin Michel’s glass roof for her sixth novel, The Wardrobe of Lives (1). The soft-touch cover with a drawing of a three-sided bathroom cabinet that a woman opens like a theater is melancholy and nostalgic. Like her.

“I had finished raising my children. I came back to do theater once more and I rediscovered a childlike joy and creativity. I share my life with my husband, an American cutler, between our bucolic house decorated like an electric train with its river, its small road, with its frogs, tits, squirrels in Val-d’Oise, and another in a village of seaside towards Perpignan. I grew up in Amiens, made a career in Paris, lived in West Hollywood. Now that I know what…

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