A dozen bouquets of flowers, oscillating between pink and white, distributed around a sober coffin, a smiling portrait and this handwritten poster left by an inconsolable admirer: "To our Tata Yoyo, the Curé's Maid, we don't 'will never forget'.
It is in the image of Annie Cordy, who disappeared Friday, September 4, at the age of 92, in the neighboring town of Vallauris.
A moving simplicity mingles with tender thoughts, since Tuesday, in a lounge of the Athanée in Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes) open to the public.
The coffin of Léonie Cooremann, her real name, is on display in the funeral home before her open-air funeral scheduled for Saturday, September 12 in the same town.
To enter, you have to follow in the benevolent footsteps of Edgar, a security guard who has learned about his career in order to better understand and discreetly supervise visits in small groups of no more than four people.
Very calmly, often as a couple, the fans, necessarily masked, follow one another as close as possible to the deceased "modest, not proud and very pleasant on stage as in life", testify this Wednesday morning two octogenarians from Le Cannet, Raphaëlle and Renée .
In tears, Philippe, 57, cannot accept a death "so brutal".
He leaves a small envelope.
“I just left him a letter, I wrote it last night,” he says.
I tell her everything she was and everything she did for us as an artist.
I grew up with her, she was a go-getter.
It was like a mom.
I followed her career, I would have liked so much to know her… ”
"She brought a lot to the whole earth"
Many, if not all, put forward “his modesty”, “his humanity”, “his joy of living”.
“Twenty years ago, she came regularly to the restaurant where I worked as a waiter.
She had a small dog.
She was extremely kind and very generous, I wanted to greet her, ”says Georges, 70 years old.
At the exit of the show, the messages multiply on three registers.
In one of them, Marie-Claude, a resident of Mandelieu, confides her admiration in a few words: "She has brought a lot to the whole world".
At least in Belgium, where Annie Cordy was born and where Anne-Marie comes from, who came to spend a few days with her child living on the Côte d'Azur.
“I went to lay flowers in front of his house.
Before leaving again, I could not help but come here.
I saw her twice, she knew how to entertain people without falling into vulgarity ", she estimates under the approving gaze of Benjamin, her son aged 39, also moved, because" rocked by the songs of the artist ”.
Confined, 25 Belgian artists full of humor sing "it will go better tomorrow" with Annie Cordy
Friends ... With other Belgian artists 🇧🇪 full of humor and positive attitude, I challenge you 🎶: - Either you sing in your turn "it will be better tomorrow" and you post your video in comments- Either you share this video mentioning the people who should sing in your place👉🏻 So, you take up the challenge? VirginieP.S .: no excuses, here are the lyrics ;-) It will be better tomorrow It will be better tomorrow Like Everything will end well We must take advantage of the coming day When the day appears, I open the shutters To see the sun in the big blue sky So much the better if it is there but if it is not there I make myself my sun even when it rains I have a light heart whatever the season When I sing my song It will be better tomorrow It will be better tomorrow If it seems far to you Why not take a good day ahead It will be better tomorrow It will be better tomorrow As everything will end well We must take advantage of the coming day When I see some of my good friends who for three times have nothing
I hold out my hand, I tell them "it's okay" As long as your heart beats it's not so bad Think this world was made for you Now sing with me It will be better tomorrow (It will be better tomorrow) If that Seems far to you Why not take a good day ahead It will be better tomorrow (It will be better tomorrow) As everything will end well We must take advantage of the coming day It will be better tomorrow (It will be better tomorrow) If it seems far to you Why not take a good day in advanceIt will be better tomorrow (It will be better tomorrow) As everything will end well We must enjoy, enjoy, enjoy the coming day Performer: A. Cordy Lyricist: G. Liferman
Gepostet von Virginie Hocq am Donnerstag, 26. März 2020
An artist who was not only a singer, recalls Isabelle, 49 years old, arrived specially from Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), more than two hours away, to meditate in front of the coffin. “I immersed myself in her world during confinement, where she had made a message on social networks. A kind of click for me. She had the ability to take on comic but also tragic roles, as in
Passenger of the Rain
or
Rue Haute,
”she adds. The forty-something, high school teacher, testified to her admiration in a message to her niece on Facebook, the day before the death. Chance of life, unhappy. "She sang
It will be better tomorrow
, but the year 2020 is rotten, she sighs, the carefree part with Annie Cordy".