MICHAEL BOUQUET. A national tribute will be paid to Michel Bouquet on April 27 at the Invalides, after the death of the actor at the age of 96.
[Mis à jour le 14 avril 2022 à 11h09] Michael Bouquet will be entitled to a national tribute, we learned this Thursday, April 14, 2022. The day after the death of the immense actor of theater and cinema at the age of 96, the Elysée indicated to franceinfo that his memory would be honored on April 27, 2022 at the Invalides. The schedule and contours of this national tribute have not yet been specified.
Michel Bouquet was considered one of the most talented actors of his generation, both for his films and for his roles in the theatre. In the cinema, we could see it in “The bride was in black”, “Borsalino”, “Renoir”, “The unfaithful wife” or “Les Miserables”. He toured with the greatest, from François Truffaut to Claude Chabrol via Henri Verneuil. Michel Bouquet had received two Césars in 2002, for the film “How I killed my father” then in 2006, crowning his interpretation of François Mitterand in “Le promeneur du Champ-de-Mars”. On the boards, his favorite playground, he played “The imaginary patient”, “The Miser” or “The king is dying” by Eugène Ionesco, which had even earned him a Molière.
It is a giant of cinema and theater, unanimously hailed by the profession and politicians, who left us this Wednesday, April 13, 2022. AFP revealed that Michel Bouquet died “in a Parisian hospital”, citing his service hurry. Many personalities and anonymous people hailed the memory of the man who was considered a great actor. Among those who paid tribute to him, let us mention Emmanuel Macron, Alain Delon or even Fabrice Luchini.
The state of health of Michel Bouquet before his death this Wednesday, April 13, 2022 remains unknown. However, Fabrice Luchini revealed at the microphone of Pascal Praud on RTL that he “was not doing very well” for a few months, without making any further revelations about his illness. He simply clarified that he “began to no longer be in control of all his memories” for two years. We had recently seen Michel Bouquet in the cinema, since he played in “Villa Caprice”, released in 2021.