France Veber passed away last week. Little sister of filmmaker Francis Veber, the former journalist and press officer died in Paris on June 13 at the age of 83. “She was always smiling, loved the theater and the actors, she was very complicit with her brother”, confides her friend Marie-Hélène Brian, who defended Le Dîner de cons by Francis Veber, at the Théâtre des Variétés, during its creation. in 1993.
France Veber was immersed from an early age in the artistic world. Born July 6, 1940 in Hendaye, in the Basque Country, she was the daughter of Pierre Gilles Veber, the screenwriter of Macao, l’enfer du jeu and Fanfan la Tulipe, and Catherine Agadjanian – known as Georgette Paul -, playwright and novelist. She was also the great-niece of Tristan Bernard, and the mother of author Sophie Audouin Mamikonian. His second daughter, Cécile Rap-Veber, devoted herself to her profession as a lawyer. She is now the general manager of Sacem.
After having been director of the press department of Pathé Marconi in the early 1970s, she set up a press relations agency with her best friend before devoting herself entirely to the theater. First a journalist with Jacques Martin in the program Entre les artistes then in So font font, every Sunday on Antenne 2 for more than 10 years, she comments on the news of plays and highlights many authors and actors.
Later, she would direct the Théâtre de la Renaissance, then the Théâtre des Variétés with Jean-Paul Belmondo’s brother. The Dîner de Cons with Jacques Villeret and Claude Brasseur filled that of the Variétés for three years. Finally, France Veber will accompany her brother in the editing of all the pieces that will follow, until 2017, when she retires. However, she continued to defend the theater through her blog, Vebershow.wordpresse.com.
The funeral of France Veber will take place on Monday June 26 at noon at the Mont-Valérien crematorium (104, rue du Calvaire 92000 Nanterre).
