Trintignant, a life marked by two tragedies

The private life of Jean-Louis Trintignant, who died today at the age of 91, was marked by two tragedies related to his daughters. Pauline, born from her second marriage to actress, set designer and director Nadine Marquand, died in 1969 at the age of ten months from the so-called white death syndrome. The eldest daughter, Marie Trintignant, born in 1962, actress nominated several times for the César prize, died in 2003 from the injuries inflicted by her partner, the rock star Bertrand Cantat, voice of the group Noir Désir. On the night of July 26-27, 2003 in Vilnius, Lithuania, where the couple were because Marie had to shoot a movie, the former leader of Noir Desir savagely beat the actress, leaving her on a sofa and waiting for seven o’clock. morning before calling for help, when by now the cerebral edema caused her had irreversibly spread. Taken to the police station, he admitted everything: under the influence of alcohol, he would beat his partner out of jealousy. She ended up in a coma, she died on 1 August in a hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, after two head surgeries. Cantat was sentenced by a Lithuanian court to 8 years and released on parole in 2007 after four years in prison.