She had been friends with Michou for forty years and had signed the preface to her autobiography "Michou, prince bleu de Montmartre", published in 2017. Anny Duperey remembers the king of the night:
“Michou had extraordinary courage. In recent months, he has been very thin because he was no longer eating: he was drinking only champagne. But until the last days, going to his cabaret kept him standing. He had tremendous strength. Even when he was sick, he had the necessary start to face, to be cheerful and to say What a beautiful evening!
VIDEO. Michou, king of the Parisian nightlife, died
Last Monday, Michou announced to us, to his biographer François Soustre and to me, that he had given the orphans of the P'tits Poulbots de Montmartre the check received for his book Michou, Prince bleu de Montmartre . It was very important to him and after that he told us Now I'm not going to last long . Michou was a man of great generosity and great intelligence and he was a very wise entrepreneur. While everyone advised him to enlarge his cabaret, he resisted staying in his authentic little establishment… And he was right! "
"There is only one thing with which I did not agree with him: he wanted this place to close when he died ... I told him that the artists were so beautiful and the show so great that Chez Michou was not to close after him. It was his work, but the artists devoted their lives to it. It would be a real shame for them and for Michou's memory. Because with his disappearance, we lose someone very important in Parisian life. "
