“It was really a very good start”. Fifty relatives attended Monday in the cemetery of the small village of Lumio, Haute-Corse, for the interment, near the sea, the humorist and actor Guy Bedos, who died may 28 at 85 years old.
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Nicolas Bedos, the younger son of the humorist, was unveiled in a moving letter read out on France Inter, the tone that would take these funeral corsican after the ceremony on Thursday at the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés : “You fly in Corsica, in this village you made him a little ta the Mediterranean to Algiers. We will sing with Izïa and the Tao, Higelin, the Trenet, the Dabadie and Nougaro. It’s going to make violins, the melodrama a cappella: do not mégoter his grief at the exit of an actor.”
And this is, indeed, in songs and under a beautiful sun that the ceremony of an hour took place on Monday afternoon, between tears and smiles, starting with the Dio Vi Salve Regina, the hymn corsica, sung by three women, have found journalists from AFP.
and Then Izïa Higelin, a cappella, sang two songs, Calvi, from his album, Citadel. The singer corsican Patrizia Poli succeeded him before a beautiful and joyful Bella ciao performed by Tao-By, figure of the bar “Chez Tao”, the high place of the nights calvaises located in the heart of the citadel of Calvi, where Johnny Hallyday, Michel Sardou, Jacques Higelin and Guy Bedos in particular had their habits.
The songs were greeted with applause and smiles of the relatives of the comedian gathered around his widow Joëlle Bercot, his daughter Victoria and his son Nicolas. Were notably present the humorist Muriel Robin or the actress Doria Tillier, close to Nicolas Bedos, and Véronique Genest.
“It was a really great start,” said Véronique Genest AFP, welcoming “ceremony extremely moving and funny,” with “tender moments” : “I believe that it looked like real Guy, it was pretty anti-conventional.”
white roses and immortal, these small yellow flowers and scented very present in the corsican maquis, were then thrown on the coffin, and Nicolas Bedos was a sign of goodbye to her father and gave him a kiss before a flight’s final applause. Sheaves with the words “Thank you the artist !”, or “your one and only son” would quicken the tomb.
A hundred of onlookers had come to the entrance of the cemetery to make an ultimate tribute to the comedian. “I’ve admired all my life,” said one of them to the AFP, referring to his “two, three” encounters “with him on the edge of the sea.” It was a “charming personality, simple, humble, nice… that’s why I wanted to come to pay tribute to him,” said the inhabitant of Lumio.
André Pacou, president of the League of human rights (LDH) from Corsica, came in the “friend” was, to him, to pay homage to the”humanist of talent” who was a member of the LDH and committed to left-wing. “It was constantly the desire of the other”, is he recalls, referring to a “man of combat” but also “a man of tenderness”.
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