Personalities and anonymous people gathered in Paris on Monday for the funeral of Régine, singer, actress and “queen of the night” died on May 1 at the age of 92. The ceremony began shortly before 11 a.m. at the crematorium of the Père-Lachaise cemetery, in the Salle de la Coupole.
Access to the Coupole was reserved for his family and personalities, where around 200 people came, including Carla Bruni, Jane Birkin, Marc Lavoine, Carole Bouquet, the musical director of Radio France Didier Varrod, Anthony Delon, Rachida Dati or again the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo.
A hearse carriage drawn by two horses and decorated with white flowers passed in front of the approximately 200 anonymous people who crowded outside.
Applause greeted the entry of the coffin into the Salle de la Coupole, where a photo of Régine, dressed in a green evening dress and her feet in champagne buckets, was on display.
Singer Catherine Ringer opened the ceremony with an a capella version of her famous song “Les p’tits papiers”, written by Serge Gainsbourg, taken up in chorus by the assembly.
60s icon
Régine, icon of the 60s, had owned up to 22 nightclubs that bore her first name around the world, starting with the mythical “Chez Régine” near the Champs-Elysées, which quickly became the meeting place for all of Paris. and the jet set.
It was she who had had the “jukeboxes” (automatic distributor of songs recorded on discs) replaced by record players and disc jockeys.
“She was everywhere the lights shone, in her clubs, on the stages of the Olympia, Bobino, the Folies Bergère or Carnegie Hall, and even on our screens”had greeted the Elysée after his disappearance.
