He was a favorite of New Wave directors Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut.
by the Élysée Palace, the office of French President Emmanuel Macron, which did not cite a cause. “For seven decades,” Macron said, “Michel Bouquet brought theater and cinema to the highest degree of incandescence and truth, showing man in all his contradictions, with an intensity that burned the boards and burst the screen.”
Mr. Bouquet appeared in nearly 120 film and television roles even as he remained active on the Paris stage, taking parts well into retirement age — he starred in a production of Molière’s “Tartuffe” at 92 — and playing the title role in Eugène Ionesco’s “Exit the King” more than 800 times.
Mr. Bouquet was born in Paris on Nov. 6, 1925. His father, a World War I veteran, was taken prisoner by the Germans during World War II and spent four years in captivity in Pomerania. His mother was a milliner who accompanied him to the Opéra-Comique during the Nazi occupation, taking his mind off the conflict and revealing the power of the theater.
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