Adieu Bébel: France says goodbye to charismatic New Wave star Belmondo • FRANCE 24 English

Thousands turned out Thursday in #Paris to honour Jean-Paul #Belmondo, who helped define French identity for six decades, with President Emmanuel Macron offering an emotional #farewell to the film icon who died this week aged 88. FRANCE 24's James Creedon lives from the ceremony in the Invalides.
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[@percyrobertogamboaugarte5827]

¡Siempre magnífico Belmondo! Sus películas y actuaciones a menudo me sorprendían por la frescura de sus caracterizaciones. Alegró mucho mi juventud... Hasta siempre Jean Paul!!! Ya quedan muy pocos grandes como tú en la actuación...

[@charon2987]

who is this guy

[@nathaliemarseille488]

This guy is Monsieur Jean-Paul Belmondo thé great french actor

[@catherinefotic4614]

A Legendary french-european actor who was internationally known Especially from the sixties to the eighties. More than 140.000.000 people have Seen his movies. He was appreciated also by many américan actors like Robert de Niro or Sly Stallone and by filmmakers as QuentinTarantino who came to meet him in France during a film festival in 2013.. Steven Spielberg liked him and proposed him twice a role but JeanPaul Belmondo préfèred to concentrate on his french and européan career. He played with american actresses like Jean Seberg in the movie "Breathless", emblematic film of the New wave of the 60's much appreciated by the american students of that décade.. And with Raquel Welch in a comedy in 1977.. He also played in "Casino Royal" with David Niven, a James Bond parody.. yOu are certainly young to have Heard about him.. He was very popular in Russia, Japan, Germany and South America..