France Gall conquered the crowds with her essential pieces. Disappeared in 2018 following a long illness, the tributes to her do not weaken. During her lifetime, the singer was unfortunately marked by terrible tragedies. The brutal death of her husband Michel Berger in 1992 will shake her forever. Five years after her disappearance, France Gall decides to stop playing music after the loss of her 19-year-old daughter Pauline. The latter died of cystic fibrosis in 1997. To mourn, Raphael’s mother decided to settle in Senegal.
“I immediately wanted to be the most successful mother in the world to survive and to integrate this idea of having lost a child. To be able, more easily, to live with that. Otherwise, we’re screwed if we think about it, if we regret it ”, confessed France Gall for the journalists of D8 in 2015. “My way of thinking was: ‘It’s amazing to have known her for 19 years. They took her from me, but they gave her to me anyway for 19 years”.
Via his book “Quelque chose en nous” focused on Michel Berger, Bernard Saint-Paul, the famous music producer has lifted the veil on Pauline’s last wishes. Without make-up, the writer gave himself up to his subject in the columns of “Gala” this Sunday, November 28, 2021. “Little Pauline Hamburger, who knows she is doomed, makes a will and says to her mother ‘I know I’m going to die, I would like to be buried next to dad”, confided Bernard Sain-Paul to our colleagues.
Wanting to respect the request of his daughter, France Gall would have immediately transferred the coffin of Michel Berger in the vault of the Gall clan. A request that she has however refused in the past. Thus, father and daughter were buried together on the edge of the 29th division of the Montmartre cemetery in Paris. Died three years ago, the interpreter of “Si, maman si” rests to this day by their side for eternity …
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