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Emilie Salabelle
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The coffin was as black as the dress-code imposed on the guests handpicked. The final wink of “man in black”. Its exit from the hearse coincided to the nearest second when the bells of the Saint-Roch church resounded, to the applause of the crowd. 4.30 p.m. tolling. The directives given by the PAF leader and flagship producer were respected to the letter. Many guests were many to have made the trip to make a last tribute has Thierry Ardissondied of liver cancer at the age of 76. The ceremony was deprived, to the chagrin of the crowd of anonymous raised behind the barriers, who came to pay a last tribute to the television man and adopted Parisian. Back in pictures.
Many personalities present
Singers, animators, political figures … A rain of homage had followed the announcement of the death of the personality which reigned for more than 40 years on French television, no offense to its legendary impertinence and with the many controversies in which it was mixed. They also responded around his coffin.
@Actu.paris The host and producer Thierry Ardisson died of liver cancer on July 14 at 76. His funeral was celebrated in Paris Thursday July 17, at the Saint-Roch church, nicknamed “the parish of the artists”. The black coffin of that which was nicknamed “the man in black” was applauded by a crowd who came in number to pay him a last tribute. Many public figures were also present. #Thierryardississon #Obseques #FyP #Pourtoi
♬ son original – Actu Paris
In addition to Brigitte Macron or the former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, many artists and personalities on the small screen paraded in front of the rows of photographers.
“I loved his outspokenness”
Hissed as she was able on the edges of a metal grid, Liliane, retired from the 16th arrondissement of Paris, regrets not having succeeded in seeing the coffin. “I would have been better in front of my TV,” she laughs, disappointed, before changing her mind. “I am still happy to have come. I really liked his outspokenness, his colorful. He was not afraid to burn life by both ends. ”
A little further, Philippe, pepper hair and salt and rock t-shirt, abounds. “I have always been. I loved its great sensitivity who was the opposite for his provocative side. He also had very good musical tastes, ”he says. The emissions he holds? “Those where he interviewed Ray Charles, or Gainsbourg … There were so many!” »»
“It was surely someone not easy“, Timidly believes Geneviève. “But that was charming”. “And he was a handsome man,” adds his neighbor Marie-Élise, Val-de-Marnaise. “He was himself, he lived what he was doing. He was really not like everyone else. ”
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