"Thank you for your unwavering support": the farewell message from the actors of "Plus belle la vie"

More beautiful was life with them.

After 18 years of broadcasting and 4,665 episodes, the Marseille saga of France 3 bows out, and with it, its actors.

They bid you farewell here with their gratitude and words of love.

Here is their platform.

" Here we are.

Tonight is the last night.

At the theater, the curtain falls.

The audience applauds and greets the actors.

You, it's been eighteen years that you watch us every evening on France 3 and that you greet us every day in the street, the train, the bus, the metro, at the supermarket, wherever we meet.

And we meet everywhere.

If there's one number that no one will ever know about

, it's the number of autographs and selfies we've taken together.

Probably millions!

Because the most beautiful thing about

is this incredible relationship that has been forged over the past eighteen years between the public and the actors.

And to be exact, between all those who worked at

and the viewers.

How many smiles, tears, anecdotes, winks shared over time?

So today we want to say thank you.

Millions of thanks!

Thank you to every viewer who watched, recorded, criticized, loved, hated, made fun of

.

Because that's what made

last so long.

Of course, we must salute the incredible work of the authors who breathed and restored France for almost 20 years.

Often ahead of newspapers and entertainment shows, the popular series told France to France, without distinction of age, sex, religion, sexual orientation, creed, social class.

spoke to you about yourself every evening.

And we actors, we were all a little bit like you.

This is also why you liked us.

And that's why we love you.

Because we also recognize ourselves in each of you.

And believe us, we've always been respectful when it came to playing you, representing you.

We have defended every job that makes France, every idea, every value, every fight, every step forward in society.

And we even claim to have, thanks to you, with you, changed France on certain subjects.

Everyone thinks of the role played by the series in the fight against homophobia, for example.

We have never been afraid to address sensitive issues such as uneasiness in the police, difficult weekends, harassment or Alzheimer's and so many others.

This is to tell you what

Because

is life!

Thank you to each of you for your unwavering support.

And as we wrote at the La Rochelle Festival on a T-shirt:

.

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