Guy Bedos, buried in Corsica, in songs and to applause

Guy Bedos was buried in Haute-Corse, in Lumio, on Monday in the presence of about fifty relatives.

“It was a really nice start”: about fifty relatives attended on Monday in the cemetery of the small village of Lumio, in Haute-Corse, the burial, near the sea, of the comedian and comedian Guy Bedos, died May 28th at 85 years old.

Nicolas Bedos, the youngest son of the comedian, had revealed, in a moving letter read on France Inter, the tone that these Corsican funerals were going to wear after the ceremony on Thursday at the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés: “You are flown to Corsica, to this village that gave you a little of your Mediterranean d “Algiers. We’re going to sing with Izïa and the Tao, the Higelin, the Trenet, the Dabadie and the Nougaro. .

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And it was indeed in songs and under a beautiful sun that the one-hour ceremony took place on Monday afternoon, between tears and smiles, starting with the Dio Vi Salve Regina, the Corsican anthem, sung by three women, AFP reporters found. Then Izïa Higelin, a cappella, sang two songs, including “Calvi” from her album “Citadelle”.

Corsican singer Patrizia Poli succeeded him before a beautiful and joyful “Bella ciao” performed by Tao-By, a figure in the bar “Chez Tao”, a high place of Calvary nights located in the heart of the citadel of Calvi where Johnny Hallyday, Michel Sardou , Jacques Higelin and Guy Bedos in particular had their habits.

“I think the ceremony looked like Guy,” says Véronique Genest

The songs were greeted by the applause and smiles of the comedian’s relatives gathered around his widow Joëlle Bercot, daughter Victoria and son Nicolas. Also present were comedian Muriel Robin and actresses Doria Tillier, close to Nicolas Bedos, and Véronique Genest.

“It was a really nice start,” Véronique Genest told AFP, praising “an extremely moving and funny ceremony” with “tender moments”: “I think she looked like Guy, she was pretty unconventional “.

Nicolas Bedos sends a kiss to his father before a final round of applause

White roses and immortals, these small yellow and fragrant flowers very present in the Corsican bush, were then thrown on the coffin and Nicolas Bedos waved goodbye to his father and sent him a kiss before a flight final applause. Sheaves with the words “Thank you artist!” or “your one and only son” were flowering the grave.

About a hundred bystanders had come to the entrance of the cemetery to pay their last respects to the comedian. “I’ve admired him all my life,” one of them told AFP, referring to his “two, three” encounters with him “by the sea.” He was a “charming character, simple, humble, kind… That’s why I wanted to come and pay tribute to him,” the Lumio resident said. André Pacou, president of the League of Human Rights (LDH) of Corsica, who came as a “friend”, wanted to pay tribute to the “talented humanist” who was a member of the LDH and committed to the left . “He was constantly concerned about the other,” he recalls, referring to “a man of combat” but also “a man of tenderness.”

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