The farewell to Michou, the blue prince of Montmartre, took place this Friday at 10:30 am in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. His coffin, as blue as his inimitable costumes, was warmly applauded by a huge crowd at the exit of his famous cabaret on rue des Martyrs. Relatives and anonymous then accompanied the blue hearse to the Saint-Jean church in Montmartre.
Dressed in blue, the First Lady, Brigitte Macron, wanted to be present for this last tribute and to support Erwann Toularastel, the last companion of the deceased. Alain Juppé, his friend for over thirty years, the former mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, the singer Hervé Vilard, the singer Chantal Goya and her husband, the composer Jean-Jacques Debout, the hosts Patrice Laffont, Danièle Gilbert and Jean -Luc Reichmann, actresses Héléna Noguerra, Chantal Ladesou and Anny Duperey, and filmmaker Claude Lelouch had made the trip.
"My grave will also be blue! "
l was hard to make my way through the crowd of fans who came to meditate. The elected officials of the 100% Paris group, chaired by Pierre-Yves Bournazel, proposed "the installation of a statue like that installed for Dalida" and "the naming of a street in homage to Michou" in this neighborhood he loved so much and of which he was an emblematic figure.
The burial took place in small groups. The blue prince of Montmartre now rests in the district where he became a legend at night in a blue granite tomb. "I've been thinking about it for some time. I even went to the Saint-Vincent cemetery in Montmartre to choose my place. My grave will also be blue! ", He had confided to Paris Match in 2015." My grave will also be blue! I at least know where my friends will say goodbye to me, ”he added.
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