After the national homage to “Bébel”, a funeral in the privacy

The last farewell to the “Magnificent” Jean-Paul Belmondo! The day after the national tribute to the sacred monster of French cinema, his family and loved ones, including actor Alain Delon, gathered to say goodbye to him during a ceremony at Saint-Germain-des-Prés church in Paris.

Absent from the ceremonies on Thursday, the last old lion of French cinema, long wrongly presented as Bébel’s rival, appeared on Friday smiling, crutch in hand and accompanied by his son, Anthony, and was applauded by the crowd, shouting his first name.

Other personalities, including the director Claude Lelouch, the host Michel Drucker, the actors Pierre Richard in crutch, and Jean Dujardin, the actresses Béatrice Dalle, Véronique Jeannot, Thierry Frémaux, general delegate of the Cannes Film Festival, or even Luis Fernandez , the former coach of PSG, entered the church before the ceremony scheduled for late morning.

A hearse greeted with applause

To the applause of the crowd, the hearse with the coffin arrived shortly after 10 a.m. at the gates of Saint-Germain-des-Prés church, in the center of Paris. Several hundred people were gathered behind security barriers or seated on terraces in famous neighborhood cafes, such as Deux Magots.