Robert Hossein in 2007 -
LYDIE / SIPA
Robert Hossein's family will meet on Wednesday in Vittel, in the Vosges, for the funeral of the director, director and actor who died Thursday the day after his 93 years.
A ceremony organized in the family intimacy announced his wife the actress Candice Patou.
"For the public and Robert's artist friends, there will be a commemorative mass in Paris in January," she added, adding that the director and monument of the popular theater had died in a clinic near Nancy.
"He did not die of the coronavirus," she further indicated.
“Robert loved the audience.
I am overwhelmed by the incalculable testimonies of anonymous people and I thank them from the bottom of my heart, ”said Candice Patou.
A museum “to perpetuate one's memory” in reflection
"With the city of Vittel [where the couple lived for a few years, Editor's note], we are considering the creation of a Robert Hossein foundation and a museum to perpetuate his memory", underlined the actress.
Unforgettable Count de Peyrac in the
Angélique
cinematographic saga
and famous for his mega productions on stage, Robert Hossein shot dozens of films from 1948 to 2019, notably giving the reply to Brigitte Bardot in
Le repos du guerrier
(in 1962) and becoming Roger Vadim's favorite actor (
Le Vice et la Vertu
in 1963,
Barbarella
in 1968).
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