DEATH OF THE LYRICIAN JEAN-LOUP DABADIE

The man of letters was an author, translator, director, lyricist, dialogist and journalist. He was one of the most prolific lyricists of French song and marked popular cinema in the 1970s.

On the big screen, we owe him the scenarios of several films by Claude Sautet, such as "Max and the scrap metal" with Michel Piccoli, "Vincent, François, Paul ... and the others" or "César and Rosalie". He also signed for Yves Robert the scripts of "An elephant, that is very deceiving and" We will all go to paradise ", with Jean Rochefort. We also owe him the screenplay of "La gifle" (1974) with Lino Ventura and Isabelle Adjani.

In music, the list of his collaborations allows us to measure his weight in French song. Michel Polnareff's tube "We will all go to paradise" is him. "Femmes je t'aime" by Julien Clerc, again him. He has also worked with Juliette Gréco, Yves Montand and Jean Gabin. Jean-Loup Dabadie has also written sketches for several comedians, notably Guy Bedos.

And all his talents have won him prizes: the Jean Le Duc prize from the French Academy for "César et Rosalie" and for "La Gifle", the great cinema prize from the French Academy for all of his work (1983), the grand prize (humor) of the Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers (Sacem) in 1984, the grand prize of the French song of the Sacem (lyricist) in 2000, the Raymond-Devos prize of the French language in 2004, the Henri-Jeanson Prize of the Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers (SACD) for all of his work the same year.

He had just finished adapting for the cinema a novel by Georges Simenon, "The green shutters", the first role of which was to be played by Gérard Depardieu.