I found it a little over a year ago. When Romain came into my life, met my children, and I met his daughter, things happened very naturally. Little by little, this apartment became ours, the home of our blended family.

First and foremost, the neighborhood. I’ve lived here for a long time, and I feel deeply at home in it. It’s full of shops, lively and joyful, while still being very pleasant to live in on a daily basis. And then the apartment itself: the light, the proportions, the moldings, the parquet… It has everything we love in a beautiful Haussmann-style home, with a very fluid layout where there is almost no wasted space.

What’s quite amusing is its circular layout. You can almost walk all the way around the apartment. The children, as well as the cats, make the most of it! In fact, it’s really a stadium for felines here.

And then the bathroom! Huge, with very high ceilings. My first reaction was: “But who had the idea to make a bathroom this big… and why?” Very quickly, my aesthetic doubts gave way to the pleasure of comfort.

We’re lucky to have an office two floors up whenever we need some quiet, but most of the time we work here. Our desks face each other, so it only takes a few steps to exchange an idea—it’s wonderful. That said, we also spend a lot of time outside, especially in Place Saint-Georges, which is quite literally our second office. The day often starts there with a coffee. I love its atmosphere, its architecture, and its calm. It’s a very peaceful place, and then, later in the day, theatre audiences arrive and a different rhythm takes over. With the children, the living room—and especially the dining table—are the real gathering points. At weekends, that’s where everyone comes together.

Les Canailles is a wonderful old-school neighborhood bistro—excellent food and very well run. You have to like bistro-style cuisine: think veal liver and tripe! We’re both big meat lovers, so I don’t really have any vegan or sweet-tooth addresses. We also really like Savarin, which is excellent as well. And Benjamin Schmitt probably makes the best cassoulet in Paris.

Minimum !

I belong to a generation of women who are experiencing a new phase of life starting at 45. It’s something quite unprecedented—our mothers didn’t experience it in the same way. We now have twenty additional years to invent, invest in, and enjoy. 20 ans plus tard was born from this conviction, as well as from the desire to create a shared project with Romain. Very text-driven, the magazine brings together around thirty women aged 29 to 82: journalists, interior designers, chefs, Pilates instructors—various professions… A group that could be friends, creating the magazine they would have wanted to read. I believe this second part of life is an opportunity, one that should be embraced, through experiences, life paths, and the professions of these 30 new kinds of contributors who accompany me.

Delphine does everything, and I do the rest! (laughs) I give a few bits of advice from time to time.

Romain has been creating magazines (Vieux et Bon, ed.) for thirty years. How to find a tone, a rhythm… It’s an incredible privilege to learn alongside him. He supports me with great generosity, sharing his experience, his perspective, and his high standards. We exchange a great deal, but each of us keeps our own territory. Choosing contributors, defining the editorial structure, proofreading and editing texts—that’s more my domain!