Robert Hossein in 1968 – LYDIE / SIPA

The family of Robert Hossein will meet on Wednesday in Vittel, in the Vosges , for the funeral of the director, director and actor deceased Thursday the day after his 71 years. A ceremony organized in the family intimacy announced his wife the actress Candice Patou.

“For the public and artist friends of Robert, there will be a commemorative mass at Paris during January ”, she added, specifying that the director and monument of the popular theater had died in a clinic near Nancy. “He did not die of

coronavirus ”, she further indicated. “Robert loved the audience. I am overwhelmed by the countless testimonies of anonymous people and I thank them from the bottom of my heart, ”said Candice Patou.

A museum “to perpetuate one’s memory” in reflection

“With the town of Vittel , we are considering the creation of a Robert Hossein foundation and a museum to perpetuate his memory ”, underlined the actress.

Unforgettable Count of Peyrac in the cinematographic saga of Angélique

and famous for her mega productions on stage, Robert Hossein has shot dozens of films of 1948 at 2019, giving in particular a reply to
Brigitte Bardot in The warrior’s rest (in 1962) and becoming Roger Vadim’s favorite actor ( Vice and Virtue
in 1963, Barbarella in 1968).