César Baldaccini, known as César, was born on January 1, 1921 in Marseille. He died well before reaching 100 years old, on December 6, 1998 in Paris.

Filmed on the occasion of his retrospective at the Center Pompidou, during the winter of 2017-2018, this beautiful documentary broadcast this evening on Le Figaro TV wants to give back to Caesar what belongs to Caesar. “When I was young, I thought I was going to become a sculptor like Michelangelo and Maillol. A sculptor, originally, is a man who mainly touches clay’ ”