The general public will be able to bid a final farewell to Jean Lapointe. While the funeral will be reserved for the parents and friends of the actor, a burning chapel will be held on Thursday, December 15 from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Saint-Viateur church in Outremont, in Montreal.
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Singer-songwriter, comedian, comedian and Senator of Canada Jean Lapointe will not have a state funeral, as announced The newspaper a few days ago.
He will however be entitled to a final goodbye from the general public when a burning chapel has just been officially announced by the family. This will take place on December 15 at the Saint-Viateur d’Outremont church in Montreal.
A private funeral ceremony will be held on December 17.
Singer Marie-Élaine Thibert and actor Benoît Brière – author of the preface to the new version of the biography crying by Jean Lapointe – will take the stage to pay their last tribute to the artist who died on November 18 at the age of 86.
Frayne McCarthy (a singer and songwriter part of the musical The melody of happiness playing at Théâtre St-Denis and a close friend of Anne Elizabeth Lapointe) will perform one of Jean Lapointe’s favorite songs, What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong.
Several dignitaries are also expected at the ceremony.
A last deserved tribute
On November 28, Jean Lapointe’s son, host Jean-Marie Lapointe, confessed to Log to be very disappointed by the non-holding of a national funeral for his father, the founder of the Maison Jean Lapointe.
The artist and humanist would not meet the criteria of the Quebec government for the implementation of this protocol granted to major public figures. The newspaper contacted several authorities to find out about these criteria, without success.
“It is not for me that I am sad, but for the public who would have loved, I believe, to pay a last tribute to dad”, had confided Jean-Marie Lapointe to the Log.
“We are disappointed for dad too, because his work as an artist, humanist and former senator deserved to be celebrated. »