Single at 34, Michel Blanc had set up a strange place in his home for the sake of “his fiancées”

“Forget that you have no chance, go ahead, go for it! On a misunderstanding, it can work“: this line is, 40 years after the release of the film Tanned people go skiing, become cult. It is signed Jean-Claude Dusse, emblematic character of Tanned wonderfully played by Michel Blanc. And she’s not about to leave her fans’ minds a few days later the actor’s death at the age of 72. Michel Blanc lost his life on Thursday October 3 in hospital, around 11 p.m., after several hours spent between life and death and in a stable condition before complications.

If there could be little consolation, it would be to know that Michel Blanc left in the arms of his partner Ramatoulaye Diopwith whom he had been living a love affair for around fifteen years. Because no, the actor did not remain single as long as Jean-Claude Dusse’s character. Attentive and full of love, as his ex-partner Lio explained, Michel Blanc was keen to do right by the women he loved. In his apartment, a room had also been created especially for their benefit.

A corner just for him so as not to disturb his “fiancées”

This Tuesday, October 8, Paris Match devotes its issue to the disappearance of Michel Blanc. The opportunity to look back on the last interview he gave to the magazine, on the most significant moments of his career, on his reunion with the Tanned for the 50th anniversary of the magazine and on the meetings of Paris Match with Michel Blanc in the past. Among them, an interview done in 1986 in his apartment in the heart of the capital.

Michel Blanc showed us around his Parisian cocoon which he constantly defined in his own image. It is in the heart of the popular district of Saint-Germain-des-Prés that he took up residence: “My apartment looks like me: it’s made of inextricable clutter and more organized spaces” he confided at the time. In addition to a large office with huge windows and a small bar area, Michel Blanc had a special room built: a soundproof telephone booth so you can listen to the radio early in the morning without disturbing his “fiancées”. However, it was not in this wonderful apartment but right in the Marais district where he had adopted solo habits that the man who loved Ramatoulaye so much lived together…