They came, they were all there, gathered to inaugurate, Wednesday April 12 on the bridge of Bir-Hakeim, a place which from now on will be named the Promenade Jean-Paul Belmondo.
The whole family of the Magnificent, his children Stella and Paul, his grandchildren, his brother Alain and all his acrobatic friends Jean Dujardin, Antoine Duléry, Richard Anconina, Cyrielle Clair... had made an appointment to unveil the plaque who will immortalize the gesture of the great actor who died on September 6, 2021.
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The mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo delivered the inaugural speech, not forgetting to recall that the Bir-Hakeim bridge was the setting for the famous aerial metro stunt directed by the intrepid Bébel in the film Peur sur la
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d 'Henri Verneuil in 1975.
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by Henri Verneuil in 1975, with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Denner, Rosy Varte, Lea Massari... The extract from the pursuit in and on the metro
The actor's eldest son, Paul Belmondo, accompanied by his wife Luana and his three sons Alessandro, Victor and Giacomo, as master of ceremonies thanked his father's traveling companions for their presence, who for nothing no one would have missed this moment of emotion.
Among them, we could recognize the director Claude Lelouch, but also the actor Pierre Richard and the comedian Laurent Gerra.
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Stella Belmondo, the nineteen-year-old daughter of the Magnificent, very attached to the memory of her illustrious father, went with her mother Natty Tardivel to the baptism of this Promenade which spans the Seine.
She knows that now that by strolling, not far from the Eiffel Tower, Parisians and visitors to the capital will no longer be able to forget the name of Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Alain Belmondo, Paul Belmondo and Stella Belmondo inaugurated the Promenade Jean-Paul Belmondo on April 12, 2023 in Paris.
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