“A charming man of rare elegance”: in Chartres and Lucé, we remember the actor Jacques Sereys

His death was announced by the Elysée on Monday 2 January. Honorary member of the Comédie-Française, Jacques Sereys died on Sunday at the age of 94.
This great figure of the theater has held around fifty roles for classic authors (Marivaux, Corneille, Goldoni or Feydeau) and has also starred in around thirty films, for Henri Verneuil, Louis Malle, Jean-Paul Rappeneau…
It was not even unlikely to meet the one who got the Molière for best actor for his single on stage On Proust’s side in 2006, at the Théâtre de Chartres, to which he entrusted The republican echoenjoy programming.