“He had concepts”that is what Thierry Ardisson wished to say about him when he died. Not less than that is what he declared to Level June 9, on the exit The person in black (Plon, 224 p., € 21), a e-book by which he staged his personal loss of life. He had discovered this way to subvert the codes of autobiography: “I had the concept of a final acid judgment, an unimaginable present the place personalities and family disembark. »» He had considered every thing: the ceremony, incense, the choir kids, to the playlist, with Lazarus by David Bowie and In My Life Beatles taken up by Sean Connery.

Solely the date lacked: Monday, July 14, the host and movie and tv producer died on the age of 76, in Paris, from liver most cancers, his spouse and youngsters introduced in an announcement to the France-Presse company. “Thierry left as he lived. As a brave and free man. Along with his kids and mine, we had been united round him. Till his final breath “wrote his spouse, TF1 journalist Audrey Crespo-Mara.

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