Guest of Michel Denisot in "Icons" on Saturday, the photographer Jean-Marie Périer spoke about his private life, which meets that of many celebrities of the past century.
And in particular the couple Johnny Hallyday-Sylvie Vartan, whom he accompanied on their honeymoon.
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It is a special and deep friendship on which Jean-Marie Périer returns to the microphone of Europe 1, Saturday: the famous photographer confides in his closeness with Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan, with the honeymoon of the Hallyday-Vartan couple, in which he participated.
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, he tells Michel Denisot this unique but… normal moment, according to him.
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In April 1965, Johnny Hallyday is still under the flags, but the singer obtained a twelve-day leave for his marriage with Sylvie Vartan, celebrated in the Oise.
Around them appear the witnesses Luce Dijoux, Mercedes Calmel-Rougerie, Carlos and Jean-Marie Périer.
"Already, they had taken me as a witness of their marriage, which is all the same already very nice, but in addition, they take me on a honeymoon!", Relates 55 years later the photographer and friend of many celebrities .
Vartan and Hallyday, "young and beautiful"
"We were all three on a honeymoon and we found that normal", continues Jean-Marie Périer about this trip to the Canary Islands.
"Today I realize it was amazing, but we thought it was good. They were all young and beautiful and it's easier to photograph a lot of young and beautiful people than it is old and ugly people."
Beautiful people who, moreover, knew how to laugh: "Johnny is one of the guys who made me laugh the most", assures the one who was also a director in the 1970s. "Nobody laughed as well at Johnny Hallyday as him. - Same. I assure you, the Guignols, they could go and get dressed next door! "