This Saturday, September 9, 2023, France 3 viewers can find actress Léonie Simaga in “Les Secrets du paquebot”. In the columns of “Télé 7 Jours”, she confided this week about her difficult family history.
This Saturday, September 9, 2023, it’s time for fiction from 9:10 p.m. on the France 3 channel, which is broadcasting the TV film The Secrets of the Liner. A new program which includes Arthur Dupont, Muriel Combeau and Léonie Simaga in its cast, during an investigation into the death of a journalist. Investigations which will bring to the surface the many mysteries of what we could call the French Titanic, which ran aground in 1920 in Les Sables d’Olonne with 568 victims.
Léonie Simaga, heroine of this TV film inspired by this true story, spoke about her role as Léa Tounkara in the columns of 7 Days TV, published this Monday, September 4. And the subject of those forgotten by History is very important to her, as explained by this mixed race born from the love of a Breton mother and a father of Malian origin. “My family has known the price of sacrifice and blood“, explains the granddaughter of Jean-Baptiste Le Gall, who disappeared while liberating Brest in 1944.
My mother did not know her father
She adds : “My mother did not know her father, who received the Legion of Honor posthumously. She was a ward of the Nation, and it was in this capacity that I was able to join the education house of the Legion of Honor, where I followed my studies up to the baccalaureate..”
However, she recognizes it: she had never heard of the French Titanic and its sinking while it was bringing home Senegalese riflemen….
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2023-09-09 23:00:30
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