A black and white photo where Rémy Julienne is with Jean-Paul Belmondo is placed on the steps of the church, surrounded by flowers.
It reads: “The angels of the waterfall are waiting for you.
Your friend Bébel is looking at you ”… But Jean-Paul Belmondo was not present at the funeral on Friday January 29th.
Alain Delon, who lives 40 km away, in Douchy-Montcorbon, either.
Behind the blue, white, red coffin, bearing the logo of his production company (a car taking off), some stunt friends were on the other hand there, like the horse trainer for the cinema Mario Luraschi, alongside the actors Bernard Menez and Raphaël Mezrahi: “He was a real nice, iconoclastic, funny, inventive.
I saw him six months ago.
We had the project to build an electric quad, ”reveals the comedian.
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More than a hundred anonymous people, massed behind metal barriers, also came to pay homage to the man with the 1,400 productions that the villagers affectionately called “the daredevil”.
Gérard and Madeleine met him at Cepoy where he came to retire between two shoots: “Around a coffee, leaning on the bar, his famous blue cap screwed on his head, he told me that he had learned the ropes of mechanics in the village. , with Antoine, a driver who delivered fodder to farmers, ”says Gérard.
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Isabelle, camera slung, says she is disappointed with so few stars present.
She stayed near the speakers to listen to the homage paid in the church by Michel Godest, the lawyer for thirty-four years of Jean-Paul Belmondo: “Jean-Paul is very sad at home in Paris, not to be alongside his lifelong accomplice, ”he reports.
"In my stunts, I obeyed Remy's instructions with my eyes closed," he reminded her again this Friday.
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During the funeral, the audience also discovered the “author” Rémy Julienne.
The stuntman had written “Remy” a song interpreted this Friday by his accordionist friend Jeannot Fabry, at the opening of the ceremony, which lasted nearly two hours.
In a nod to his career which allowed him to notably double Roger Moore or Sean Connery in the role of James Bond, the credits of the adventures of the famous British agent 007 were broadcast on a loop.
