Indeed, the former President of the Republic had notably decorated Régine – whose real name is Régina Zylberberg – in 2008, during a ceremony at the Elysée Palace, with an officer medal of the Legion of Honor. . But Nicolas Sarkozy and Régine have crossed paths many times over the years. On archive photos we can thus see them during a ceremony at the town hall of Paris in the 1990s or even during an evening on the sidelines of the Roland Garros tournament in the 1980s. In 2012, Régine went to even at a meeting of the politician Place de la Concorde, in Paris. So many beautiful moments that must remain in the memory of the former head of state.
An icon of the 1960s, Régine owned up to 22 discotheques that bore her first name around the world, starting with the legendary Chez Régine near the Champs-Elysées, which quickly became the meeting place for all of Paris and the jet-set. Before her death, she had expressed only one wish: “My greatest joy would be that people still listen to my songs in fifty years“, she told AFP.