This is sad news for French cinema. On the night of Thursday October 3 to Friday October 4, Michel Blanc died at the age of 72. A real shock for his loved ones since the actor did not suffer from any illness. As his friend Gérard Jugnot reveals at the microphone of RTL this Friday morning, the interpreter of Jean-Claude Dusse in the Tanned people go skiingreportedly suffered anaphylactic shock following an allergy to a foreign substance, during a medical examination. Michel Blanc then suffered a heart attack and died despite several resuscitation attempts.
“I think I was told that he had a huge allergy, an anaphylactic shock on a medication. They tried to resuscitate him, it was terrible for the rest of the day yesterday, but he left “says his friend from the Splendid troupe. But the actor was not alone in his hospital room when the tragedy happened. As revealed by Dominique Lavanant, who plays Christiane in The Bronzed, au TelegramMichel Blanc was a hypochondriac and regularly visited doctors. “Death scared him so much”she adds. She then specifies that Michel Blanc has died “in the arms of his companion (Ramatoulaye Diop, editor’s note)with whom he was emotionally happy.
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Michel Blanc: Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron pay tribute to him in a touching letter
After Lio, Gérard Jugnot and Josiane Balasko, the President of the Republic wanted to pay tribute to Michel Blanc. This Friday, October 4, the Élysée Palace published a press release, which retraces the immense career of this “great actor of popular cinema who dared to lend his talent to the exploration, luminous or dark, comic or tragic, of our waves in the soul”. At the end of the letter, Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron then wanted to salute the memory “of an actor, a director, an author who managed to make life more human, more funny, more sensitive”. They then address “their heartfelt condolences” to family, loved ones and “to his comrades at Splendid”as well as “millions of viewers who loved him”.
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