jeudi 31 juillet 2014

Castle of Clermont, fans celebrate the 100th birthday of Louis De Funes

Throughout France, Belgium and Slovakia Hundreds of fans flocked to the castle of Clermont, the former home of Louis de Funes, near Nantes, the legendary comic actor, who turned 100 on Thursday to honor yourself.

More than thirty years after his death, January 27, 1983, one of the most expensive player in the heart of the French remain, and one of the masters of the box office with a total of about 120 million entries from "Big Mop" (1966), "Sucker" ( 1965) and "The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob" (1973).

Three months jail for Clermont in the Loire, which he bought in 1967, welcomes its emissions that "Louis museum" dedicated to the actress.

This symbolic day, there were discovering more fanatics like Alexander, who flew in from Burgundy, his wife and two daughters in the guest list about 400.

Funes movies, "It shook my youth," he recalls, confesses his love for the TV series "Cops", a point that has bought and renovated Citroen Mehari, as shown in the film, and the same policeman who had bought the suit.

Even today, he continues to watch movies with his daughter. This is the "cabbage soup" and "Saint-Tropez police" Maeva, 12, is preferred.

"It's an intimate party for all, the opening of the museum like helped. Today I asked a symbolic moment of the centenary of the birth of" Louis de Funes, was born on 31 July 1914 in Courbevoie, near Paris, says Charles Düringer originally museum.

- "My father was here" -

It is dedicated to the success of the first museum, Louis de Funes, a narrow village with two bedrooms only 4,000 inhabitants, a public subscription was driven started in late 2013 in connection with loans and philanthropy, fundraising required to install a museum in the castle of Clermont .

A total of more than 11,000 euros were collected on the 200 donors in France in Belgium, Germany and Slovakia, 30 hour trip in Loire-Atlantique and also.

Post today Degueville Richard, 72 years old and lives in the basement since 1974, was Louis de Funes 1981 years. The actor was then, crossing the city of 1,000 francs Festival Committee, under the chairmanship of Mr. Degueville. "He came to all the shows that are generous with those who had asked for nothing," does not remember.

Also in attendance, the son of Louis de Funes, Olivier, whom she played and sang with his father as a "summer vacation".

"That's a lot of good memories. Below is the way to find the building, but the good people here, AFP, said the century, before visiting the museum., You have not forgotten to recognize the situation they were."

After the show, they can not hide their feelings, than a few words of the official opening: "I had a great time my father saw him, his soul is in this museum .. This is extraordinary"

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