the public and the Splendid are expected to say goodbye to the “angsty clown”

The ceremony will be broadcast in front of the Saint-Eustache church.

The funeral of actor Michel Blanc, who died suddenly at the age of 72, will be celebrated on Thursday October 10 in Paris in the presence of many personalities from cinema and theater. They will be celebrated from 4:00 p.m. in the Saint-Eustache church, in the center of Paris where the actor lived. Father Yves Trocheris, priest of the church, will host the ceremony.

While several hundred admirers are expected to honor the memory of the actor, a sound broadcast of the ceremony is planned in the church square. Members of Splendid, the café-theatre troupe of“friends for life”should speak to pay him a final tribute, the actor’s entourage told AFP.

A major actor in comedic cinema in the 1980s before moving towards dramatic roles and a career as a director, Michel Blanc suffered a heart attack on the night of Thursday October 3 to Friday October 4 after a routine examination, and was transported to a Paris hospital where he died.

The Paris prosecutor’s office told AFP that it was not aware of his death. According to his entourage, the actor was the victim of anaphylactic shock, a rare but violent allergic reaction to a food, a drug or venom, which can lead to death in a few minutes. In the case of Michel Blanc, it was a medication that caused the brutal allergic reaction.

The death of the eternal Jean-Claude Dusse, this character as exasperating as he is touching who for a time confined Michel Blanc in the roles of hypochondriac or clumsy, has sparked a shower of tributes.

The first of the Splendid troupe to leave, his former comrades Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, Josiane Balasko, Thierry Lhermitte, Marie-Anne Chazel and Bruno Moynot expressed “with one voice” their “immense pain.” All seven of them were still posing in April for the weekly Paris Matchon the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the troupe which was formed at the high school.

Upon the announcement of the death of the man who described himself as “an anguished clown”Head of State Emmanuel Macron spoke of the loss of a “monument of French cinema”while Prime Minister Michel Barnier estimated that“we all (had) a little bit of Michel Blanc in us”.

Director of public success Walk in the shade (1984), Michel Blanc distinguished himself in dramatic films such as Mr Hire (1989) after Simenon, and The Witnesses (2007) by André Téchiné playing a homosexual doctor suffering from AIDS.

Despite the great public success of Tanned 3 in 2006, he modestly admitted that this is not what he “does better”. In 1986, he won a Best Actor Award at Cannes for Evening wear by Bertrand Blier. A distinction he shares with Bob Hoskins for his role in Mona Lisa by Neil Jordan. Nominated four times for the César for best actor, Michel Blanc won the precious statuette in 2012 for his supporting role as chief of staff in the political thriller The State Exercise.