Paris (AFP)
Personalities of the 7th art including Nicole Calfan, Jean-Paul Rouve, Jean Benguigui and filmmakers Danièle Thompson and Fabien Onteniente paid a last tribute on Tuesday in Paris to Claude Brasseur, who died at 84, noted an AFP journalist.
At the invitation of the family, a hundred anonymous attended the religious service organized in the Saint-Roch church, the Parisian parish of the chaplaincy of artists.
"You told me that your only small ambition would be to be part of the nostalgia for tomorrow. I believe that all of us here already have the nostalgia for yesterday. Thank you Dad! We love you," he added.
Louis, Claude Brasseur's grandson, then read "Le Bonheur", a poem by Jacques Prévert.
For Father Luc Reydel, chaplain of artists, "Claude Brasseur worked his talent to share it and, in return, was so loved by the French".
The actor was to be buried in the afternoon and in strict privacy in the Père-Lachaise cemetery, where his father, the actor Pierre Brasseur, rests.
In more than 60 years of career, Claude Brasseur will have turned in more than 110 films, passing also by the cases television and theater.
Following the generations of spectators, he will be remembered as Vidocq, Daniel, member of the band "Un éléphant ça trompe enormously" and "We will all go to paradise" alongside Victor Lanoux, Jean Rochefort and Guy Bedos, but also François, the father of Sophie Marceau in "La Boum" or Jacky in "Camping" and its suites.
The former resident of the Conservatory, jack-of-all-trades, has also toured with figures from the New Wave such as François Truffaut ("A beautiful girl like me") and Jean-Luc Godard ("Bande à part").
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