Olivia Ruiz said goodbye to her "extra grandmother", Purification Ruiz-Monpean "became Rita Blanc".
On Saturday, the singer and her family accompanied "in her last home" their "abuela".
A grandmother with an “impenetrable mystery” from whom they discovered part of her past on the day of the funeral.
A story that joins that of "the exodus of the Spanish republicans".
It is in a long text on Instagram that Olivia Ruiz shared with her subscribers a poignant tribute to the one who was "the inspiration of some of us".
“Since yesterday, we all know that you were part of the retirada, the exodus of Spanish Republicans, and that it was in a concentration camp in Rennes that you entered detention four days later, with your mother and your three older sisters", begins Olivia Ruiz, sharing the chance of the date of the funeral, January 28, the same day when, 84 years earlier, in 1939, her grandmother "climbed on the last train at the departure from Girona before the French border is closed to trains from Spain".
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then remembered the temperament of her grandmother, who had a legendary repartee.
“It was to hide your chronic hypersensitivity, these ready-made phrases.
This emotion told that behind your big smile was hiding immense suffering.
The uprooting from your land, the abandonment of your mother, herself in pain, and probably so many things that we do not suspect,” adds Olivia Ruiz.
The artist also evokes culinary memories, including "these cans of sweetened condensed milk that you cooked until it became milk jam to stuff Charline's or Yannick's bag", or even the " peach can for [Olivia Ruiz].
Runny potato omelet for Steph.
Semolina cake for Christiane”.
So many memories that Olivia Ruiz keeps with her, while wishing her grandmother that “this new stage of life that is death” will allow her “to find peace”.
Confidences that have greatly moved the fans of the artist, but also his relatives, including his ex-companion Mathias Malzieu, who sends him “tender thoughts filled with sweet and comical memories”.
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