PICTURES – There was a very large crowd in the Saint-Roch church this morning for the blessing that preceded the burial in the privacy of the actor Montmartre cemetery. A sober ceremony, fervent, very moving.
“Téléphonons us,” slips Jean-Paul Belmondo, very beautiful with his white hair and elegance customary. He contemplates a tender look of her boyfriend always Jean-Pierre Marielle. These two are friends from the Conservatory of Dramatic Art. And the great Marielle, the laughing eyes, opened wide her arms and wrap his Bébel its large carcass.
The ceremony had finished. The church was so full that the front rows were not yet out. The embrace of Belmondo and Marielle summarizes some very beautiful and simple ceremony which took place in Saint-Roch this morning in this parish priests where artists can speak of theater as they know about God.
From ten in the morning, thirty minutes before the beginning of that blessing with words taken, the church was full. There were many people on the steps, many people who waited patiently on the other side of the Rue Saint-Honoré, many people who continauait to arrive in the wet and chilly wind of this January 12th.
The love its partners and audiences will always wore Michel Galabru, read on crowd flower.
Line Renaud, Valerie Mayor, Bertrand Tavernier, Robert Hossein, Candice Patou, Patrick Prejean , Jacques Balutin, Daniel Prévost, Berengere Dautun, Bruno Raffaelli, Antoine Duléry, Philippe Caubère, Jean-Pierre Bernard, Clémence Massart, to name a handful, many theater directors such as Bernard Murat and Marie -France Mignal, Jean-Claude Houdinière, directors, such as Jean Sagols were present and dear figures from the entertainment world, Jacques Collard, Servat Henry-Jean, among others.
On the left of the altar stood the family and especially the children of the three actors, Philippe Jean, Emmanuelle, the family of his deceased brother Marc, grandchildren Sophie, Charlotte, Adrien and probably the little Jana. On the other side of the nave, Michel Galabru students, young faces, ravaged by sincere sorrow.
The Minister of Culture and Communication Fleur Pellerin was present too, sitting quietly near Line Renaud. Élisabeth Guigou, too, was there.
Tender tribute filial
wreaths, bouquets, many came flowers the family, students, institutions, friends.
With In Paradisum Gabriel Fauré qu’entra the coffin and Charlotte, Sophie, Adrien, lit candles around the light oak coffin.
Small children can read and Michel Galabru say Charlotte for The Book of Isaiah , Adrien for Psalm 22 , were perfect, modestly holding the emotion raised them.
The officiating priest, Father Philippe Desgens, spoke with great wisdom and truth of Michel Galabru after they had heard The Gospel according to Saint John . He referred questions arose this great actor, born into a Christian family and baptized. “He has the answer,” he concluded, pointing to the coffin …
While you could hear La Valse triste Sibelius, beautiful and melancholic, and that passed the red velvet bags quest, many people took the floor. Antoine Duléry, who never knew his grandfather, Albert Reyval, resident at the Comédie-French. But Michel Galabru and telling him he was their tours, including Algeria, Antoine Duléry says, he heard the voice of his grandfather, he knows it. Beautiful tribute, filial and tender.
Line Renaud, with lots of holding and heart, in turn, paid tribute to his dear Michel Galabru. She said fine a brief text and very fair, with the smile of a mention of his brief and memorable role in Les Ch’tis …
” We can applaud in church? ‘
Philippe Caubère which more than two hundred times played Jules and Marcel, evocation Marcel Pagnol and Raimu through their correspondence, directed by Jean-Pierre Bernard, first cited precisely extract these letters, greeting Pagnol Raimu. And then he slipped to a very strong tribute to the genius of Michel Galabru, before being political and polemical, noting that this great artist had never played the Hill or in Nanterre. He recalled how he had it a few years ago, suggested to the Avignon Festival directors to allow one evening to play in the main courtyard that had been playing particularly The Rustres Goldoni directed by Jean Vilar. But we do not even bother to answer.
Angry, Caubère. Not very friendly for Fleur Pellerin who had wanted to be there. But thunderous applause greeted the diatribe …
“ We can applaud in church? ” asked my neighbor …
Galabru calm return with Sophie, but speaking of her and her brother and sister. “Twenty-five, twenty, eighteen years, has had that time to know us,” she said in substance. She spoke very well of my heart, the deep culture, generosity, intelligence of his beloved grandfather. And it was, too, applauded.
While family and very close blessed the coffin which had been praised a young man sang a cappella a superb Corsican song. Galabru loved Tino Rossi. Galabru born in Morocco and High in the south, like the bitter songs and so beautiful.
This is still a waltz on the coffin went out. The waltz 2 Shostakovich, beautiful and sad, but full of light and hope … While that once again the crowd applauded, inside as well as outside the church.
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