Regine's admirers will pay her a last tribute next week.
The funeral of the singer and actress, who died Sunday at the age of 92, will take place on Monday May 9 in Paris, her granddaughter Daphne Rotcajg announced on Monday.
The ceremony is scheduled for 10 a.m. at the crematorium of the Père-Lachaise cemetery, Salle de la Coupole.
Régine, icon of the 1960s, had owned up to 22 nightclubs that bore her first name around the world, starting with the mythical "Chez Régine" near the Champs-Elysées, which quickly became the meeting place for all of Paris. and the jet set.
A figure of Parisian nights
It was she who had replaced the jukeboxes with record players and disc jockeys.
“She was everywhere the lights shone, in her clubs, on the stages of the Olympia, Bobino, Folies Bergère or Carnegie Hall, and even on our screens,” wrote the Élysée.
“The President of the Republic and his wife salute a great figure in Parisian nightlife and French song.
They address to his family, to all those who have danced at Régine, to all the French people who like to sing his songs, their emotional condolences, ”added the services of Emmanuel Macron.
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