The President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, preceded by the actors Fabrice Luchini, Muriel Robin and Pierre Arditi, honored, Wednesday, April 27, the memory of the actor, died April 13 at the age of 96 years.
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“Michel Bouquet will have burned the boards and punctured the screen seventy years for”: it is with these words that Emmanuel Macron began his funeral praise, Wednesday April 27, during the national tribute paid to Comedian at the Invalides. “His face and his voice were the scene of all our feelings. In a hundred pieces, in a hundred films, he went around the man,” continued the President of the Republic in front of some hundred and fifty guests (including Francis Huster, Catherine Frot, Kad Merad, Julie Gayet, Nicole Calfan, Guillaume de Tonquédec, Jean-Marc Dumontet, etc.), a large part of the government and the family of this sacred monster of the boards, died April 13 96 years old.
“Michel Bouquet entered the theater as we enter religion. He believed in his characters as we believe in deities”, continued M.Macron in a court of honor where two large portraits offered a smile at the same time Sweet and playful of the actor. “Luckily, the devouring love of Michel Bouquet for the theater was not exclusive. The greatest filmmakers have forever fixed his genius on the film. (…) He was, during these decades, this black sun of French cinema. Scrutinizing our flaws, surveying our fury, unmasking our contradictions and unraveling our baseness, he searched at the bottom of our souls to get everything up. Intractable consciousness of France, intractable because always true, “insisted the President of the Republic.
“You have to serve but do not use”
After Charles Aznavour in October 2018 and Jean-Paul Belmondo in September 2021, this is the third time that Emmanuel Macron pays a national tribute to an artist. If we were teaching, we would be tempted to say that you have to death for culture to be honored after an electoral campaign where it was never discussed.
Before the presidential praise, three popular actors – Fabrice Lucchini, Muriel Robin, Pierre Arditi – praised the memory of this playmate and this teacher. All recalled the total respect that Michel Bouquet had for the authors and their texts: “We must serve but not to use”, used to say the one who interpreted eight hundred times the king is dying of Ionesco. “When you played, Michel, you imposed, and what is very rare, something that is of the undeniable (…), no one could replace you,” said Fabrice Luchini. The tutor too, Pierre Arditi, who shared the scene several times with him, finished his speech by saying: “Michel, you are the theater and the theater never dies.”
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