Philippe Bouvard: after his private mansion and his luxurious villa, he lives happily in this Cannes penthouse with his wife

After leaving RTL, Philippe Bouvard will enjoy his retirement in a luxurious penthouse. Where is this little haven of peace located ?

© Bestimage Philippe Bouvard, historical figure of RTL

IN BRIEF

• On December 6, 2024, Philippe Bouvard celebrates his 95th birthday and announces his departure from RTL after a 60-year career.
• He plans to spend his retirement in Cannes with his wife Colette, in a 100-square-meter penthouse.
• Discover how Philippe Bouvard traded in his pharaonic villa for an apartment better suited to his needs.

This Friday, December 6, 2024, Philippe Bouvard celebrates his 95th birthday. “I was going as one can go when one has just reached one's 95th year. It's a lot. It's not without some problems and they are not problems that one can believe are resolved”, he confided to Laurent Marsick on RTL, a station of which he was the star for a very long time.

Another page is also turning in the life of the journalist. The historic host of Grosses Têtes will leave the airwaves the day after New Year's Day. “Because on January 1st, I will have set the double record that I was hoping for, that is to say 60 years of radio and 60 years of RTL”, he explained on air last June.

Philippe Bouvard: where will he spend his retirement ?

When he passes through the door of the RTL studio one last time, Philippe Bouvard will fly towards Cannes. According to information gathered by our colleagues at Purepeople, the radio veteran is enjoying happy days “in his 100-meter penthousesquares of downtown Cannes where he lives with his wife of 71 years, Colette, aged 88″.

Inhabited by “a passion for beautiful houses”, he told the Parisien some time ago, the happy nonagenarian previously owned a private mansion “Directoire era” in the heart of Paris. “This house is too big, too heavy. Taxes have reached a confiscatory level. It makes me sad, but it's more reasonable”, he regretted in the columns of Parisien, in 2016.

Philippe Bouvard: this pharaonic villa that he parted with

In the Parisian grayness, Philippe Bouvard now prefers the sun of the French Riviera. The 100-square-meter apartment he occupies today seems very modest compared to a pharaonic villa that he had acquired several years ago.

Sold in 2021, this immense property cannese of 442 square meters and 3,190 of land was enough to make your head spin. It had a total of six bedrooms, a veranda, a swimming pool, a lounge area and a gym. Now in a wheelchair, the grand master of the Grosses Têtes had to opt for accommodation adapted to his disability, but which one assumes is just as comfortable as his former properties.