Bad news for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, who had knighted him in 2000: she lost her favorite spy on Saturday.
The BBC announced this Saturday at the beginning of the afternoon the disappearance, in his sleep, in the Bahamas, at the age of 90, of Sir Sean Connery, immortal hero of seven James Bond, who thus succeeded in escape all containment scenarios.
The writers of all stripes, that one imagines rather well Hollywoodians, now have the free way to put in music an exceptional trajectory, to make a film of thunder on the one who had always refused the slightest proposal of biography.
Starting with its beginnings, which are the most romantic of launching pads.
Rather judge.
It is August 25, 1930, in a district as industrial as it is poor, Fountainbridge, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Little Thomas Sean Connery, son of Joe, a worker, and a housekeeper, Euphania, called Effie, is born.
The child owes his middle name, Sean, to his paternal Irish grandfather.
He will long dream of changing it for Tommy.
A very, very precocious child
Very quickly, the kid shows serious abilities to distinguish himself, announcing at 8 years old to the cantonade that he has just had his first sexual experience.
At 13, he left school to boil the pot, deliver milk, delighted to have a pony to pull his cart.
Sean Connery had a passion for horses.
He will then be, and among others, a coalman, varnisher of coffins, lifeguard without knowing how to swim, bouncer ...
At 18, the handsome boy joined the Royal Navy but was reformed due to an ulcer.
Returning to earth, his qualities as a footballer seduced the Manchester United club, but he preferred to pose for bodybuilding magazines and finished third in the Mister Universe competition in 1950.
Sean Connery, here in "Diamonds Are Forever," played 007 seven times before stepping down.
Moviestore Collection / Rex Feat
Behind these signs while virility and testosterone, however, points to an artist's soul.
The day Sean has enough money to afford a motorbike, he buys himself… a piano.
He also took acting lessons, considered singing and ended up in the backing vocals of a musical.
It is not however for that that he was recruited but for his physique.
His very beginnings in the cinema are not bad either.
In 1957, in "At the edge of the volcano", by Terence Young, he is responsible for kidnapping Martine Carol, who, all exhilarated, announces to the director that he was wrong.
It is Sean that he should have chosen for the leading role.
The following year, in "I cry my love", the young Connery gives the answer to Lana Turner.
Discovered in ... a Disney
Here he is, a bit of straw between his teeth and a rake in his hand, in a Disney, "Darby O'Gill and the Goblins" (1959).
A producer, Albert R. Broccoli, who spends his days and evenings looking for a secret agent called James Bond, has the intuition of the century.
There she is, the rare pearl, in this character far from the subject.
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"James Bond against Doctor No", released on October 6, 1962, will be a hit, followed in a burst of "Good kisses from Russia" (1963) then Goldfinger (1964).
He will play it seven times before giving way to Roger Moore.
But in the meantime, the actor will not have ceased to make ... sideways jumps.
This was the case as early as 1965 in "The Hill of Lost Men" by Sidney Lumet, denouncing the disciplinary camps of the American army.
Sean Connery with his wife, Micheline Roquebrune, and her granddaughters, Eve (left) and Stéphanie.
Getty images / Bertrand Rindoff Petroff
Bond, James Bond, is dead.
He who always traveled light leaves this world weighed down by a hundred films shot with the greatest and an Oscar in 1988 for his role in "the Untouchables".
He announced his retirement in 2003, married, after a first union with the Australian actress Diane Cilento, to the French painter Micheline Roquebrune.
His disappearance also leaves fans of 007 orphans, nostalgic for a somewhat outdated era.
They will no doubt console themselves with a title from their favorite spy: "Diamonds Are Eternal".