"I am very pleased to learn that Paris City Hall is naming part of the Champs-Elysées gardens after me. This honour, which I did not expect, overwhelms me. It isby this tweet, signed Line Renaud, Tuesday late afternoon, that the tribute paid by the City to the famous singer and actress was announced.
Information immediately confirmed by the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo (PS), who replied on Twitter: "Line Renaud loves Paris. Paris loves Line Renaud. We owe you so much my dearest Line. I look forward to seeing you this summer to inaugurate it at your side. »
As for which part of the garden will bear her name, the actress says in her message: "This place is very moving for me because I played Très cher Mathilde for a season at the Marigny theater, and on Saturday, between the two performances, I went for a walk in these gardens. "
Mayor of the VIIIth, Jeanne d'Hauteserre (LR) specifies that "the deliberation planning to give the name of Line Renaud to the garden of ambassadors, around the Gabriel pavilion and the Pierre-Cardin space, not far from the Place de la Concorde, will be voted in the borough council Monday, May 22. Before being in June at the Paris Council. »
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Deputy Memory, Laurence Patrice (PC) said: "The Mayor of Paris wanted to pay an exceptional tribute to an exceptional woman. A popular personality loved by all, who has led essential fights, against AIDS, for the rights of LGBT people and for the right to die with dignity. »
The tribute paid to the actress is all the more exceptional since, by virtue of a deliberation of the Council of Paris of December 23, 1932, the name of a personality can not be attributed to a public road until five years, at least, after his death.
If several great figures, from Pope John Paul II to Simone Veil and Annie Girardot, did not wait for these five years of "purgatory", none had the honor of being distinguished during her lifetime. This is to say the measure of the tribute paid to this great lady of the song, emblematic figure of the fight against AIDS, born in the North on July 2, 1928.