So I went to physiotherapy school. It’s true that studying kept me very busy. Well, my studies meant that… Well, I worked, I was a hard worker. It was an important choice, yes, to go to physiotherapy school, but in the end it was a choice that was a bit induced, because Dad wanted to be a physiotherapist, it wasn’t me. Except that he’d been thrown out of physio school because he hadn’t got a good enough mark in anatomy, and even got a failing grade. So why did I choose this? I chose this because I actually wanted to be a vet until… just about now. And to be a vet, you had to go to Saint-Etienne, and I didn’t want to go far away from your father. So I needed something shorter. I didn’t want to go into medicine because I was afraid of making diagnoses on humans. That scared me. And so, certainly under the influence of Dad, because I was young, and he spoke only of physiotherapy, I said to myself: well, I’m going to be a physiotherapist too. That’s how the choice came about.
So, yes, it’s an important life choice, because it’s conditioned everything else. And yes, I liked it. It’s a profession I’ve really enjoyed.
Oh no, I didn’t work all my life, because when I was pregnant with my second son, Pierre (laughs), I decided to stop working to raise my children. It’s true that the Church at the time said it was good to have stay-at-home mothers. It’s true that the economic situation wasn’t quite the same. Nowadays, the Church says: Well, women shouldn’t have to work if the husband can do it, but it’s also well aware that you can’t do everything on one salary these days, and that you often need two salaries, so things have evolved a little. And when I was young, yes, it was a good idea to stay at home and educate your children at home.