"To have this beautiful family around me and to be its patriarch fills me permanently"
, had confided Jean-Paul Belmondo in 2017. Sundays were sacred for the Bébel clan which used to gather around a dish of pasta concocted by Luana, her daughter-in-law. The Piedmontese origins of his father, the sculptor Paul Belmondo (1898-1982), were not for nothing in this appetite for Italian cuisine nor in this keen sense of family. If the actor never stopped paying homage to his father, he adored his mother Madeleine, a painter. As a child, she took him to the theater, the circus and the cinema. She introduced him to Jules Verne. The evening of his death in 1996, he decided to go on stage to play
La Puce à l'oreille.
by Feydeau at the Théâtre des Variétés.
Since the death of
"Mamie Madeleine"
, the members of the tribe had gathered around Luana.
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