On March 2, the death of Jean-Pierre Pernaut was announced through an official press release. The journalist who spent thirty-three years at the head of 13H on TF1 suffered from lung cancer. But according to the information relayed after his death, he would have died after an emergency heart operation, which had plunged the journalist into a coma. The journalist, who died at 71, has since left a great void around him, but on Wednesday March 9, the whole of France ended up proving that he was very much loved.
His funeral was organized that day at the Basilica of Sainte-Clotilde in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, in the presence of many personalities and members of his family, namely his wife Nathalie Marquay and their children Lou and Tom. Even the presenter’s ex-wife, Dominique Bonnet, came out of her reserve to pay tribute to him, not far from their two children Olivier and Julia. A total of 700 guests attended the ceremony.
A very moving event where Jean-Pierre Pernaut’s favorite songs were heard. “In the background, we hear That I love you by Johnny Hallyday, whose photo sat in JPP’s office“, teaches us for example The Parisian. It’s still on a Johnny Hallyday hit, Married, the funeral is over. It was also chosen to broadcast: Life in pink and My God by Edith Piaf but also when we only have love by Jacques Brel.
Stunning, magnificent…
“It is very rare in funeral masses that we hear music from popular songs. When we only have love when communion was played twice, I found it absolutely moving. And Leave it to me a little longer my God, Piaf’s song, it was absolutely beautiful too“, reported Isabelle Morini-Bosc in Do not touch My TV.
And how not to think of the lyrics and the story of the song My God ? The latter refers to the tragic death of Edith Piaf’s companion, Marcel Cerdan. The boxer indeed died at the height of his glory in a plane crash in 1949. A flight that was to bring him back to Edith Piaf.