Alexandre was the first to speak.
In a Saint-Roch church (Paris Ier) where some 200 people had gathered, the only son of Claude Brasseur opened the ceremony with a few words full of tenderness: “Claude left on the day of his father's death, a December 22.
In their own way, and for eternity, they got closer.
Death is sad, but life is beautiful.
And God knows he loved her shamelessly.
I think of my mother, I think of my children, of our family, of his friends who have left, of those who remain, but above all, I think of him, the child in the trailer.
I see his parents, Pierre and Odette, who kept a distant eye on their little Claudy, whose childhood has disappeared, but who remains the man he has become, with his passing joys, his remaining sorrows.
"
A way of evoking this legendary lineage, but difficult for the daily life of a child, son of Pierre Brasseur, one of the greatest actors of his generation, and of the actress Odette Joyeux.
Alexandre, also an actor, who shared the poster with his father on stage in 2007 in "My father was right", then paid tribute to the actor that was Claude Brasseur: "I remember him in
Georges Dandin
, directed by Planchon.
I had seen the man and his weaknesses.
He had managed to make me forget that he was my father.
It is a noble part of the silent education he transmitted to me.
"
Alexandre Brasseur and his son Louis.
LP / Philippe de Poulpiquet
The 49-year-old son then ended his speech with a declaration of love: “You said that your only small ambition would be to be part of the nostalgia for tomorrow.
I believe we all here are already nostalgic for yesterday.
Thank you dad.
We love you ".
In front of an assembly where one recognized, behind their masks, the faces of Danièle Thompson, Nicole Calfan, Jean-Paul Rouve, Fabien Onteniente, Daniel Russo or Jean Benguigui, Louis, the grandson of Claude Brasseur, then read a poem by Jacques Prévert entitled "Happiness": "Happiness, when it left, had a heart as tight as mine / His smile slung over his shoulder, he left for other paths / […] He wants to plead his cause and convert all the rebels / Show them too, how beautiful life is / If we leave enough room for it to adorn it with its lace.
"
"He made a strength of his weakness"
With his sister, Jeanne, Louis Brasseur then lit candles on each side of his grandfather's coffin.
Then the priest delivered his homily.
He spoke of "this beautiful, this holy simplicity" in which Claude Brasseur lived, then evoked the "childhood wounds" of one who always said to have been "abandoned" by his actor parents, quickly separated.
"Is there only the evil which would be hereditary?"
Wouldn't talent be too?
Asked the man of the Church.
Who then underlined the extraordinary popularity of the actor: “Claude had - you will forgive me the expression - like an air of cocker spaniel.
[…].
Throughout his being, Claude Brasseur was not afraid to show that he needed to be loved.
He made a strength of his weakness.
"
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Surrounded by Alexandre and his children, but of course, also, Michèle Cambon, the wife of Claude Brasseur for fifty years, the coffin of the actor left the church of Saint-Roch shortly after noon.
On the square, dozens of fans applauded the remains of the artist who has played in more than 110 films and 35 plays in sixty years of a career marked by two Caesars and unforgettable roles in "Un elephant ça trompe enormously ”,“ We will all go to paradise ”,“ La Boom ”or“ Camping ”.
The actor Jean-Paul Rouve came to greet his “boyfriend”.
LP / Philippe de Poulpiquet
"Claude had a very, very, very good life," Danièle Thompson told us at the time.
He managed to have a life of Romanichel and adventurer, while being a man very dearly linked to his family.
Visibly upset, Jean-Paul Rouve quickly left the church square.
In the condolence registers placed at the entrance to Saint-Roch, between the "Merci pour tout" and "Au revoir M. Vidocq", the actor, who played with Brasseur in "Légitime defense", in 2010, simply writes: "My buddy", accompanied by a heart.
After the ceremony, Claude Brasseur was to be buried in strict privacy at Père-Lachaise, where his father rests.