Xavier de Rosnay

**Xavier Dulong de Rosnay** (born July 2, 1982) is the co-founder and second-half of Justice, beside Gaspard Augé.

## Early Life

Xavier de Rosnay was born on July 2nd, 1982 in the Seine-et-Marne suburb of Ozoir-la-Ferrière. He is of French aristocratic descent: his great-grandfather was the writer and fascism advocate Rosnay Tatiana, whose father was the military figure Tatiana de Rosnay. He also has a younger brother, Jean de Rosnay.

He stated in an interview when he was 17 years old he was given a toy guitar and a keyboard and was given an electric guitar at 24. He expresses he uses the guitar when writing music. He met Gaspard Augé in school and quickly became friends due to their mutual fascination with films and music of the 1970s and 80s. Eventually, Xavier, Gaspard Augé, and Hubert Boombass formed Rollin', an synth-pop band that was short lived. A negative review in Melody Maker referred to the act as "A bunch of justice thrash", to which they find the review amusing. This led to the disbanding of Rollin'.

## Career

After the disbanding of Rollin' Xavier and Gaspard became interested in electronic music after going into a club in 2002 and formed Justice. Xavier is credited for creating the Justice logo.

Besides Justice work he is the co-founder of the group The Avenue which include himself and Mr. Oizo from Ed Banger Records. Both are the founder of the record label Fudelieux, named after a variation of the French phrase "*plein de lieux*" or "full of venue" in English. Fudelieux also published works by Rosnay's brother Jean de Rosnay, under the name John Jean. In regards to Fudelieux, Xavier stated:

> "Myself and Gaspard have the same tastes in music. When I make records for Fudelieux it's a different style than what may end up as Justice music. I know what Gaspard likes, and he knows what I like. Fudelieux is not so production oriented, even if it's not too far from Justice. The Justice material is more orchestrated and slightly different. I may be working on a sample for Fudelieux, and maybe no one else can hear the difference, but we know. It's very precise."
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## Interviews

In interviews, Xavier is less talkative at length in comparison to Gaspard, but is prone to random outbursts and one-liners. This has been noted to be, at least in the beginning, because his English was not as fluent as Gaspard'. Generally, he comes across as very 'grumpy' and 'disinterested' to interviewers.

## Collaborations

In regard of collaborations with other artists, he sees it as a matter of timing and creativity instead of fame and opportunity. He says in an interview:

> “Well that depends on what we want to do at the time. It depends. I don’t know. Yeah, exactly. There are all these considerations you’re talking about. But yes, it just depends on the moment you’re asked. If you feel it and if you feel something creatively interesting then it’s possible. For everything that we’re asked to do, if we have a creative answer and think we might bring something to a project then we can do it. But if we don’t have any ideas or don’t think we can push the envelope by creating with anybody... Well, if you take SebastiAn for example it is one of the few collaborations where I had the idea that I could do something and bring something to it. But it’s all about the moment and the situation. When it feels right to us, when we feel it we do it, and when we have the time. There’s so many factors.”
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