Anh Dao Traxel

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Anh Dao Traxel (born August 22, 1958 in the south of Saigon , Vietnam ) is a French author who lived for two years with the then Parisian mayor Jacques Chirac in France and wrote two books about it.

Life

Traxel was born the fifth of nine children to a school principal in Vietnam. Her father was arrested after the fall of Saigon in the Vietnam War. She fled into exile by boat and spent a few months in a refugee camp in Malaysia . During her escape, she was treated brutally.

On July 19, 1979, she finally arrived at Paris Roissy Airport with 250 other boat refugees . There Jacques Chirac became aware of the frightened young woman and spontaneously decided to take her in. After speaking to a pastor who was taking care of the Vietnamese, he said, “Tell the little one that she will stop crying, I'll take her home.” Then he handed the young woman a white handkerchief. Until 1981 she lived with Chirac, his wife Bernadette and their daughters Laurence and Claude in the apartment of the Paris City Hall and in the family's private castle in Sarran . Chirac referred to her as his adopted daughter, even though he never officially applied for adoption because she was of legal age. She is also referred to as Chirac's adopted daughter in the French media.

Anh Dao Traxel is married to the police officer Marc Traxel and has four children: Bernard, Laurence, Jacques and Cassandre. The names of the first three children are reminiscent of the Chirac couple and their first-born daughter. Anh Dao Traxel is President of a European organization that cares for the survivors of civil servants who have died in the service (Étoile européenne du dévouement civil et militaire) .

Her book La Fille de Cœur , published in 2006, was controversial in France, especially because it painted a very positive image of the president. In it, she described her escape as a path "from hell to paradise" and her acceptance into the Chirac family as "rebirth into freedom". However, in an interview with the Var-Matin newspaper in 2011, Traxel was critical of Bernadette Chirac, who did not support her enough, and of Claude Chirac, who allegedly “always wanted to teach her moral lessons”.

In 2014 she published a second book about her experiences with the Chirac family. At the time, she had lost contact for two years and suffered from breaking up with Jacques Chirac. She said: "I miss my father's love." In the book she also described the conflicts in her relationship with Bernadette and Claude Chirac. She said she was only treated as part of the family for as long as it was beneficial to the image of the politician Jacques Chirac in order to promote his advancement. It pained her that she was never allowed to visit Chirac at the Élysée Palace after he was elected President in 1995 . His employees had given her to understand that he now had other things to worry about as President of France. The book increased tensions between those involved. Chirac's family was already outraged by Traxel after publicly speaking out about Chirac's deteriorating health. When Chirac died in September 2019, Anh Dao Traxel was not invited to the funeral service.

Autobiographies

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Tanja Kuchenbecker: "Attentive and warm father" welt.de, March 17, 2006.
  2. ↑ a b c La fille adoptive des Chirac les accuse de l'avoir «utilisée à des fins électorales» lefigaro.fr, 30 May 2014.
  3. ↑ a b c Anh Dao Traxel, la fille adoptive de Jacques Chirac n'était pas présente aux obsèques femmeactuelle.fr, September 30, 2019.
  4. ↑ Anh Đào Traxel, fille de coeur, femme de combats Ouest-France , July 27, 2008.
  5. ↑ La Présidente Anh-Dao Traxel , eedcm.com, accessed on September 28, 2019.


personal data
SURNAME Traxel, Anh Dao
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Saigon