“Dear Jean-Paul, to lose you is to lose part of our lives”.
"Farewell Bébel", launched the head of state in front of the coffin of the actor who died Monday at 88 years old.
"Belmondo, it's a little better for us", he smiled, "he was part of the family", added Emmanuel Macron in a speech full of tenderness for this "hero with a thousand faces", whose roles “Have punctuated six decades of French life”.
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The soundtrack for the 1981 film, "The Professional", sounded as Jean-Paul Belmondo's coffin left the courtyard of the Invalides. The aria "Chi Mai", composed by Ennio Morricone for an Italian film in 1971, then used for the soundtrack of the "Professional", marked the end of the national homage to the actor, who was also followed by several. thousands of people on the Esplanade des Invalides. A moving sequence to review here in video.