The media pay tribute to Juliette Gréco

Born in 1927, Juliette Gréco died Wednesday, at the age of 93.

"Juliette Gréco passed away this Wednesday, September 23, 2020 surrounded by her family in her beloved house in Ramatuelle. Her life was out of the ordinary. She still shone French song at 89 years old," the family said in a statement.

Thursday morning, the media pay tribute to him.

"We loved you"

The daily

 headlines its Thursday edition 

, in reference to

by Serge Gainsbourg, which Juliette Gréco had interpreted.

"Juliette Gréco has never really changed. She has always kept her elegance. The years had passed, this magnificent face aged. But she did everything to preserve, not her features but those that her career had given her", perhaps. we read.

"We could string together the compliments on his grace on stage, his elegance in life, whether sartorial or moral. But the strength of the mythical characters also lies in their permanent step aside, in their ability to send serious and waltzing. to crack the marble of the institution ".

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also republishes an interview carried out in 2003. The actress speaks in particular on the subject of death: "I do not go to funerals, never. I cannot consider someone as dead when it is sung or when The bed. What is annoying, however, is what happens to me with Boris Vian… I have problems with Boris because I would like to call him. But I can't. And that's what it's called death. There, we realize anyway ".

"A figure without compromise

For its part,

chose another song to pay tribute to the singer.

"There is no more after in Saint-Germain-des-Prés", we can see on the front page.

It is in this district of Paris that she built her life.

She will become its muse.

"She will remain as a figure who did not compromise".

The newspaper

 pays homage to him by recalling the writings of François Mauriac: "Who was Gréco? A kind of animal, wrote François Mauriac in his Notepad: 'Gréco, this beautiful lean and black fish, does not need sauce to pass. Gréco provides the capers herself! Black and white, she's the queen of the night. Her character is composed with a science that owes nothing to chance. How beautiful! And perhaps she was ugly at first. She's a statue of ivory and jet. Even the cheekbones, it looks like she modeled them herself. Many singers are interchangeable. Greco is the unique masterpiece de Greco. She will never be taken for another and no one will ever be able to imitate her. '".

A special evening on France 3

Anne-Sophie Lapix announced Wednesday at the end of the 8 p.m. newspaper that France 3 would offer a special evening dedicated to Juliette Greco this Friday.

Finally, Europe 1 republishes a long interview with the singer, carried out in 2007. It can be found