Claude Dartois

Claude Dartois is the intended Sole Survivor of , however, this title was revoked. He originally competed on , , and .
==Profile==
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Ce trentenaire a une grande fierté : il ne doit rien à personne! Indépendant, autodidacte, il s'est construit tout seul après le décès prématuré de sa maman alors qu'il n'avait que neuf ans... Habitué à être seul, Claude n'a pas appris l'art de la diplomatie... Enthousiaste, fonceur, impulsif, explosif même, Il manque parfois de tact et dit les choses crûment! Très débrouillard, ce chauffeur de maître travaille pour des clients fortunés.
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*Koh-Lanta 10 - Vietnam (2010)Nombre de jours: 40/40Au Vietnam en 2010, les membres du jury final avaient sanctionné son intransigeance. Mais le Parisien a conservé son âme de leader. Dans les épreuves, face à une concurrence plus forte, il veut prouver qu'il compte parmi les grands champions de Koh-Lanta.
*Quels souvenirs gardez-vous de votre première participation à Koh-Lanta? Une découverte de tous les instants, un moteur unique qui vous pousse à vous surpasser et à atteindre la finale. En revanche, j'ai été déçu de voir que tous les concurrents n'étaient pas dans le même état d'esprit que moi. C'est dommage...
*Quel a été votre plus grand regret lors de cette aventure? Et votre plus grande fierté? Je me réjouis d'avoir été au bout de l'aventure. En donnant le meilleur de moi-même, j'ai maîtrisé mon destin de bout en bout, jusqu'à la finale. Ensuite, la victoire ne dépendait plus de moi mais de mes camarades. D'ailleurs, je regrette de ne pas avoir vu clair dans le jeu de certains d'entre eux.
*Pourquoi avoir choisi de revenir en découdre dans cette Revanche des Héros? J'ai ce goût pour les défis, surtout ceux liés au sport et à la nature. Quand j'ai su que cette édition se déroulerait aux côtés de concurrents de taille, j'ai foncé!
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*Prénom: Claude (40)
*Métier: Chauffeur de maître
*Localisation: Paris (75)
C'est le grand champion de Koh Lanta ! Claude est recordman du nombre de victoires : 11 en 2 participations (en 2010 au Vietnam, et en 2012 au Cambodge). Finaliste lors de ces deux éditions, la victoire lui a échappé à chaque fois : sans doute à cause de son caractère bien trempé et un brin autoritaire ! Certes il nourrissait la tribu, mais son côté exigeant et impulsif en a refroidi plus d'un ! Claude vient prendre ce qui lui manque : le titre d'ultime aventurier.
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==Koh-Lanta==
===Viêtnam===
Before the contestants even got on the boat, Denis Brogniart informed them that they would have to immediately decide upon two among them to not join the rest on the boat. Believing that this was an elimination, Véronique Bègue and Boris Deltell sacrificed themselves for the other contestants. The other sixteen contestants said their goodbyes and got on the boat, which was headed to an island where they would be divided into two tribes the next day. When swimming to this island from the boat, Alain Merdel almost drowned, but Claude saved him and helped him get to the island. As the contestants trekked towards the north side of the island, Virginie Mercadal Pioli cut her upper eyelid by bumping into a branch. That night, Vivien Escouflaire and Alain found the island's watering hole and the sixteen contestants settled in for the night. The next day, they finished their trek and Denis Brogniart revealed that the two tribes would be divided by gender. Thus, Claude was assigned to the Do tribe and they immediately competed against the Vang tribe in their first Reward Challenge, which they lost. Upon arriving at their camp, they encountered Véronique, who had arrived there the day before by helicopter and who would be their sole female tribemate instead of being eliminated. Within the same hour, the Do tribe succeeded, in huge part thanks to Philippe Duron, in making fire. Meanwhile, Vivien seemed helpless throughout the day as he didn't contribute much around camp, he felt unwell due to fatigue and the heat, and he even got lost in the darkness when fetching water before the tribe went to sleep. The next day, the Do tribe won the first Immunity Challenge, earning them safety from Tribal Council.
The Do tribe won the second Reward Challenge and, in turn, selected Abdellah Akriche, Véronique, and Kunlé M'Babacéré Pakorona to purchase fruits for them from a Vietnamese market as part of the reward. Meanwhile, the remaining members of the Do tribe, with the exception of Vivien, resumed work on the shelter that they had started constructing the day before upon returning to camp. The next day, the Do tribe lost the second Immunity Challenge. Upon their victory, the Vang tribe was offered the right to exchange Boris for Véronique, however, they turned down this offer. Though Vivien knew that Tribal Council was looming and that he may be in danger, he remained withdrawn from doing camp chores. In spite of this, he woke up early the next morning and began to contribute more. At Tribal Council, Denis Brogniard commented that he had never seen a tribe as tight as the Do tribe before on Koh-Lanta. However, someone had to be eliminated and Vivien was voted out unanimously for his inactivity around camp and his weakness. The beginning of the next cycle worked out positively for the Do tribe as they won the third Reward Challenge, Blind Leading the Blind, against the Vang tribe and, in turn, won fishing equipment. Additionally, they were able to send Philippe and Jean-Pierre Pigato to go fishing for squid with some local fishermen. The next day, Claude, Philippe, and Kunlé formed an alliance and agreed to incorporate Alain and Jean-Pierre into the fold, with the common factor for the five being that they were the most active among their tribemates around camp, especially concerning the tribe's shelter.
When the two tribes arrived for the third Immunity Challenge, Denis Brogniart surprised them with a sudden tribe switch. With two tribes being formed with an equal number of men and women in each, Claude was selected by Jennifer Lieutaud to be one of the four men of her tribe. Jennifer's tribe won the third Immunity Challenge and they were given the right to select which camp to return to. Without hesitation, they chose to return to the Do camp, making them the second Do tribe. Philippe, now one of the members of the second Vang tribe, was upset by this turn of events because he and his other three male tribemates were essentially forced to start fresh on a comparatively empty camp while relinquishing the results of their hard work to a mostly laidback second Do tribe. At the Do camp, the four newcomer women relished what was essentially a steep upgrade of their former camp while Boris became more comfortable due to now having three other males to socialize with. The next day, the men realized that they were doing most of the work around camp while the women tended to relax and sunbathe often throughout the day and it became evident that the votes may be based on gender lines should the second Do tribe ever go to Tribal Council. Though they were safe for the third cycle, Claude and Valentin D'Hoore were concerned that Abdellah might flip on them in the future due to his tendency to flirt with the tribe's women. Going into the next cycle, the Do tribe lost the fourth Reward Challenge, Memory. Abdellah openly claimed that the Vang tribe got lucky, but Jean-Pierre of the Vang tribe argued back that his own tribe simply had a better strategy. The next day, the Do tribe constructed their raft for the fourth Immunity Challenge and, though it was inferior to that of the Vang tribe, they won said challenge the day after because they made a strategic risk during the race that paid off.
The fifth Reward Challenge began on Day 13 and consisted of the tribes going on a trek to retrieve as many of their own plaques as possible, which would be returned to the starting line on Day 14. Before the challenge began, the two tribes competed in a mini-challenge to determine which of them would be assigned to the easier path. The Do tribe lost this mini-challenge and, in turn, was assigned to the tiger path, which was the more taxing of the two paths. On their way to their checkpoint where they would be staying for the night, the Do tribe worked in a cacophonous matter but managed to get themselves organized towards the end of the day. After a rough night at their checkpoint, the Do tribe headed back to the starting line and, after the Vang tribe had mistakenly retrieved a plaque designated for the Do tribe, both teams arrived with 18 plaques that counted. In order to break the tie, the two tribes competed in another mini-challenge, which the Vang tribe won. Returning to camp already disappointed, the Do tribe was displeased to discover that their fire was almost extinguished and that they were almost out of rice due to proportioning their rice incorrectly before. The next day, things took a positive turn for the Do tribe because Claude managed to catch many crabs for the tribe to eat and because they won the fifth Immunity Challenge. In spite of this, Jennifer developed a desire to quit the competition due to missing the comforts of life outside of the game and her loved ones. She followed through on this that evening, which caused her now former tribemates to think of her as selfish for her decision. In spite of their prior concerns about being down in numbers now that Jennifer was gone, the Do tribe woke up the next morning as if nothing happened. At the sixth Reward Challenge, Marine Plissonneau reentered the game after having been voted off the Vang tribe the cycle prior and joined the Do tribe in Jennifer's place. Feeling excited about Marine joining them because they felt that she was more beneficial to have than Jennifer, the Do tribe won the sixth Reward Challenge. Marine excitedly joined her new tribemates in returning to Do camp and rekindled her relationships with the tribe's women. She also was admired by the tribe's men for her past showings in challenges and for her work ethic around camp. The next day, the two tribes competed in the sixth Immunity Challenge, Buggin' Out, which was won by the Do tribe mostly due to Boris making a successful bluff regarding his chewing time. Going into the next cycle, Laurence Pizzocchia began to increase her workload around camp slightly after observing Marine earn favour from the tribe's men for her efforts. Meanwhile, Wafa El Mejjad and Audrey Perez continued to be inactive around camp, which made Claude hope that his tribe would lose the upcoming Immunity Challenge in order to vote one of them off and to ensure the men a numerical advantage over the women going into the merge. The Do tribe quickly won the seventh Reward Challenge, which was for access to a cool bath along with chocolate and toiletries. Upon returning to camp from their reward, Wafa and Audrey talked about their cravings for delicious food at different points throughout the remainder of the day, which annoyed their tribemates, especially Laurence. After the Do tribe narrowly lost the seventh Immunity Challenge a couple of days later, the men, Laurence, and Marine strategized to blindsided one of either Wafa or Audrey by making them feel that Marine would be the target due to her status as the newest member of the tribe. At Tribal Council, Wafa and Audrey voted against Marine as the rest of the tribe had expected. Meanwhile, though Abdellah voted astray against Valentin, the rest of the voting bloc stuck to their plan and voted out Audrey as they felt she was weaker and more apathetic than Wafa.
The next morning, Claude approached Wafa and told her that he felt that Audrey was a bad influence on her and that was why she needed to go the night before. He also informed her that Abdellah had wanted the voting bloc to vote her out instead of Audrey because she would be a physical threat going into the merge. The eighth Reward Challenge was a Hero Challenge in which the winner would win a prime rib and fries reward for their tribe. Claude represented the Do tribe and won the challenge against Kunlé who represented the Vang tribe. After the challenge, Denis Brogniart announced that Claude and Kunlé would be the Ambassadors of their respective tribes and that the merge would be taking place the next day. Though the Do tribe enjoyed their reward, Valentin had burned his finger by accidentally touching a hot plate of fries resting over a grill. A medic arrived who determined that Valentin had sustained a third-degree burn and wrapped the finger in a thick bandage. Upon returning to camp, Claude consulted with each of his tribemates on who they would prefer he target at the Ambassadors' Meeting the next day. Though Boris informed Claude that he wouldn't mind being the Ambassadors' target because he felt fulfilled regarding his time spent in the game, Claude still intended to target a second Vang tribe member at the Ambassadors' Meeting, specifically Aurélie Gasser. In spite of this, at the Ambassadors' Meeting the next day, Kunlé informed Claude that he wanted for all of his tribemates to make it to the merge, considering that they were only four against Claude's tribe of seven, and that it would simply be better to eliminate someone who is ready to go. Claude ultimately agreed to this and the pair settled upon Boris, eliminating him from the game. After Claude and Kunlé returned to camp and broke the news, the merged tribe bid Boris a good farewell. In spite of this, Denis Brogniart and some of the contestants were somewhat disappointed in Boris as they felt that he had thrown in the towel. Later in the day, the medic present at the previous reward reexamined Valentin's burned finger and determined that Valentin needed to be temporarily evacuated from the game in order for his injury to be examined by a specialist. In Valentin's absence, Claude and Kunlé, having made a plan for a large merge alliance earlier at the Ambassadors' Meeting, recruited Véronique, Philippe, Wafa, and Laurence into their fold and informed them that they would be blindsiding Abdellah first at the next Tribal Council due to his challenge prowess. The next day, Claude won the first individual Immunity Challenge and he and his alliance determined that it would be better to work with Abdellah for the time being instead of targeting him. Therefore, at Tribal Council, Claude's alliance and Abdellah voted out Aurélie, who was the only remaining contestant to have never been on the Do tribe at any point, in a near-unanimous vote.
When Valentin was permanently evacuated and eliminated from the game on Day 24 after it was determined that Valentin's injury was too severe for him to return to the game at that time, Aurélie returned to the game in his place at the first individual Reward Challenge. Claude won said challenge and he was rewarded with a day tour of a Vietnamese city. While Claude was away, Aurélie approached Abdellah and Marine with a proposition to turn the tables on Claude. In turn, Abdellah approached Véronique and Laurence the next morning and tried to convince them to form a counter-alliance with himself, Aurélie, and Marine by arguing that Claude views them simply as sheep who would do his bidding for now and be easily slaughtered later. Though Véronique and Laurence were initially on board with this due to Claude's undiplomatic approach, especially concerning the women of his alliance, the pair eventually decided that sticking with Claude's alliance would be better for their games. This was made evident when Laurence opted to hinder Aurélie in the second individual Immunity Challenge when the former was eliminated from said challenge. After Claude won the second individual Immunity Challenge, Denis Brogniart revealed to the merged tribe that Tribal Council would be taking place right there and then. With their initial target having won immunity, Abdellah and Marine voted against Kunlé. Meanwhile, though it seemed that Claude's alliance would be targeting Aurélie for having just been voted out in the previous cycle and for her poor sportsmanship against Laurence regarding the second individual Immunity Challenge, they instead voted out Abdellah for his recent scheming. When Kunlé won the second individual Reward Challenge, he chose to take Philippe on the reward with him, which left Claude alone with the women at camp for the day and night. With Claude criticizing some of the women yet again for not contributing to certain chores such as tending to the fire, Véronique, Laurence, and Marine discussed how they would prefer Philippe winning the competition over Claude and how they would be willing to strategize against Claude in order to achieve this. As Philippe and Kunlé were heading back from their reward the next day, the contestants back at camp had to send two people to trek in order to collect letters from home. Claude and Wafa went to retrieve the letters and, upon arriving at the trove, they were given the right to trade as many of the letters as they wanted for food. They chose to keep Véronique and Laurence's letters and trade the rest for food. When the pair returned to camp the next morning, Aurélie was disappointed that they did not keep her letter, but understood why they were willing to forfeit it. Later that day, Claude won the third individual Immunity Challenge fair and square, but he and some of the other contestants criticized Kunlé for a move that the latter had made during the challenge which seemed to benefit Claude. With Tribal Council taking place the following day, Marine was unable to secure the votes needed to eliminate Wafa, who was her secondary target considering that Claude had won immunity, and she was voted out in turn by most of Claude's alliance.
At the Final Seven, Véronique and Laurence, knowing that they would have Aurélie's vote, decided to act on their thoughts from the previous cycle and approached Philippe with a strategy to vote out Wafa if Claude won the next individual Immunity Challenge or vote out Claude if he failed to do so. Though Véronique told Philippe that flipping on Claude would be the best move to secure his spot in the Final Two, he told her that he would think about it after the next individual Immunity Challenge takes place. To the surprise of her tribemates, Véronique won the third individual Reward Challenge. In consequence, her reward was an overnight stay in Ho Chi Minh City and she chose to share her reward with Laurence due to a deal that they had made with each other. While the pair were on their reward, they further discussed their plans to potentially vote out Claude. Meanwhile, back at camp, Philippe seemed to have made up his mind, choosing to stick with Claude's alliance, and informed everyone except for Aurélie about what Véronique and Laurence had told him. When they returned to camp the next day, Véronique and Laurence sensed the bad ambiance around camp but decided that they'd still wait until after the fourth individual Immunity Challenge to talk to Philippe again about the plan. Breaking Claude's streak, Philippe won the fourth individual Immunity Challenge that afternoon, which he dedicated to his wife. When Véronique talked to Philippe about voting Claude out at Tribal Council now that he didn't have immunity for once, Philippe informed her that he would be sticking with Claude, which prompted Véronique to immediately side with him and throw Laurence under the bus for coming up with the strategy against Claude. Véronique ran away from Laurence at one point but explained why she was doing so when the latter caught up with the former. Throughout the rest of the cycle, there were tensions between the pair regarding the amount of responsibility either person had in terms of the failed strategy, however, Claude and Wafa knew that, regardless, they both had a stake in it and that they would need to be wary of them going forward. Right before Tribal Council, Véronique suffered from a hypoglycemic attack, which resulted in her being temporarily evacuated from the game and exempt from attending Tribal Council. At Tribal Council, Aurélie was voted out unanimously due to her lack of agency within the game. After Philippe won the fourth individual Reward Challenge, he gave the food portion of his reward to his tribemates for them to share. The next day, Claude won the fifth individual Immunity Challenge, which marked his fourth and final individual Immunity Challenge win this season. Upon returning to camp, Claude and Kunlé went exploring for food and collected six coconuts that they brought back to camp. However, the pair also found and ate a dozen bananas before coming back to camp and did not divulge this information to their tribemates until Tribal Council that night. At Tribal Council, Claude and Kunlé received criticism for their selfishness regarding the bananas, to which they responded that the bananas would have been spoiled had they brought them back to camp. The women's votes were scattered with Véronique, Wafa, and Kunlé each receiving a vote against them, however, the men succeeded in voting together to eliminate Laurence. At the Final Five, the family visit took place and the contestants competed in the fifth individual Reward Challenge, Choose Your Weapon. Kunlé won the third round and chose to eliminate Philippe from the challenge instead of Claude. This backfired as Claude defeated Kunlé in the final round, winning the challenge, and Philippe held a grudge against Kunlé for the remainder of the cycle. Because Philippe won the sixth individual Immunity Challenge, Véronique tried to convince him to vote against Claude at Tribal Council since that would be their last opportunity to eliminate him before the finale. Philippe told Véronique that he wouldn't do this, but also told her that he wouldn't vote against her either even though the rest of the tribe was planning on doing so. Véronique glumly got prepared to accept her fate, however, she noticed an opportunity to salvage her game when Philippe revealed to his tribemates that he would be voting Kunlé at Tribal Council because of what happened at the last Reward Challenge. Véronique approached Wafa and convinced her to vote against Kunlé with her at Tribal Council so that he would receive the majority of the votes, which would result in both women making the finale. At Tribal Council, Kunlé was blindsided in a 3-2 vote.
Having made it to the finale, Claude was taken by Philippe to the Final Two instead of Wafa after Philippe won the Perch challenge. At the Final Tribal Council, both Claude and Philippe faced an angry jury, however, most of the jury eventually realized that their problems concerning Philippe were based on hearsay from Kunlé. Ultimately, Claude's faulty social game combined with Philippe's selflessness resulted in Claude losing to Philippe in a 6-1 vote.
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===La Revanche des Héros===
A member of the Nekmao tribe, Claude maintained an alliance with Coumba Baradji, Patrick Merle, and Teheiura Teahui that survived the tribal phase of the game fully intact. Before the merge, Claude was chosen by his tribemates to be their Ambassador opposite Francis Bordas of the Klahan tribe. As a twist for this season, the Ambassadors had to nominate one person from each tribe to compete in a duel in which the loser would be eliminated from the game. Francis and Claude agreed to pit Patricia Morel against Teheiura in the duel believing that the latter would defeat the former. These assumptions turned out to be correct and Patricia was eliminated.
Though the original Nekmao tribe members entered the merge with a numbers disadvantage against the original Klahan tribe members, they were able to convince outsider Maud Garnier, who was bitter about Patricia's elimination, to flip to their side. With the tables now turned, the original Nekmao tribe members and Maud blindsided Francis at the merged tribe's first Tribal Council and continued to pagong the original Klahan tribe members over the next two cycles. At the Final Eight, this pagonging was put on hold as Coumba and Patrick conspired with Bertrand Bolle, Moussa Niangane, and, to a lesser extent, Claude to blindside Teheiura because they feared his endgame potential. Having made it to the finale, Claude won the Perch challenge at the Final Three and took Bertrand to the Final Two instead of Maud.
At the Final Tribal Council, though both Bertrand and Claude were praised for their games, the jury was more impressed by Bertrand's trajectory throughout the game while Claude's subpar jury management somewhat overshadowed his achievements. Having another spotty social game on his second season, Claude lost to Bertrand in a 9-1 vote.
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===L'Île des Héros===
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 In Episode 3, after winning the second Heroes' entry challenge, Claude was given individual immunity at the following Tribal Council should his new tribe lose the corresponding challenge.
 In Episode 6, the vote ended with a 5-5 tie between Éric and Pholien, forcing a revote. Claude did not change his vote on the revote.
 In Episode 10, the vote ended with a 6-6 tie between Charlotte and Éric, forcing a revote. Claude did not change his vote on the revote.
 After her elimination in Episode 11, Jessica gave the Black Vote to Claude, allowing him to vote twice at the following Tribal Council in Episode 13.
===La Légende===
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 Because of many instances of cheating, Claude's victory was revoked. No Sole Survivor was crowned and the prize money was donated to a charity in remembrance of Bertrand-Kamal Loudrhiri.
==Post-Koh-Lanta==
* Claude competed on second season of the French version of The Traitors. He was "murdered" by the "Traitors" in the third episode. The host of the show, magician and comedian Éric Antoine, jokingly referenced Claude's cheating scandal from La Légende during the season, saying that Claude wouldn't be able to hide a chocolate bar under the castle cushions.
==Trivia==
* Claude is the first man in Koh-Lanta to reach the Final Tribal Council twice and is the second castaway overall, following Jade Handi. They would be followed by Clémence Castel, Pascal Salviani and Laurent Maistret.
* Claude got to the final three every time he competed.
* Claude is one of two Koh-Lanta castaways who attended the Ambassadors' meeting in multiple seasons, along with Philippe Bordier.
* Claude is the first man in the Survivor franchise to reach the Final Tribal Council thrice.
* Claude is the first person in the Survivor franchise to have his title of Sole Survivor revoked.
==References==
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