“Everything went so fast, as in a dream. It's already the end … I realize how prodigious my life was. And it is partly thanks to you, who have always been there. Here, it's over. It is a little more than 7:45 p.m. and Sylvie Vartan, 80, stands on stage against an audience that applauds everything, launches bouquets, shouts her first name. At the Paris Congress Palace (XVIIth), this Sunday, January 26, she completed the third Parisian concert on her farewell tour. The der of the ders for which all its fans, from the capital, Lyon (Rhône) or Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), we make the trip.
Not one would have imagined that he was not there to see Sylvie, as they affectionately call her, “Take reverence”, the subtitle of the show. Before entering the room, Florence keeps photographing everything. “It was for my mother who could not come. My parents are his first fans. I was rocked by her songs and my second first name, it's Sylvie. I saw her in concert here with them, I was 19 years old! It is important for me to be there, and there is necessarily a lot of emotion. I'm probably going to shed a small tear, ”she predicts.