The median of the Bir-Hakeim bridge, famous for its metal colonnades and its view of the Eiffel Tower, was renamed "Promenade Jean-Paul Belmondo" on April 12, 2023, in tribute to the actor who died in 2021. "Bébel" had shot a mythical scene from Henri Verneuil's film, Peur sur la ville, released in 1975, where he played Commissioner Letellier. Pursuing a serial killer raging in the capital, the interpreter of Breathless (1960), The Man from Rio (1964) or The Ace of Aces (1982) had progressed on the roof of a metro train of line 6, which crosses the Seine by air on this bridge. Back, in pictures, on the inauguration with his family and friends.


Director: Olivier JUSZCZAK

  • The median of the Bir-Hakeim bridge, famous for its metal colonnades and its view of the Eiffel Tower, was renamed "Promenade Jean-Paul Belmondo" on April 12, 2023, in Paris.

  • The site had been chosen "with his family", had told AFP, on March 17, 2023, the deputy (PCF) in memory Laurence Patrice, rejoicing that tourists frequenting the bridge could "find the name of this great actor who is quite known abroad".

  • "Bébel" had shot a mythical scene from Henri Verneuil's film, Peur sur la ville, released in 1975, where he played Commissioner Letellier.

  • The comedian's friends and family were present at the inauguration on Wednesday.

  • His daughter Stella and his wife Natty proudly carried the plaque of the "promenade Jean-Paul Belmondo".

  • His brother Alain, 92, had also made the trip for the occasion.

  • Like Paul Belmondo, his son.

  • And the grandson Victor whose resemblance to his grandfather is striking!

  • Actors Jean Dujardin and Francis Huster probably shared their memories of "Bébel".

  • Jean Dujardin is currently starring in the film Sur les chemins noirs directed by Denis Imbert and freely inspired by the eponymous book by Sylvain Tesson.

  • Anthony Delon was also present at the inauguration.

  • Paul and Luana Belmondo, Victor's parents, Alessandro and Giacomo.

  • The mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, Jean Dujardin, Richard Anconina and Claude Lelouch.

  • The actor with more than 80 works would have turned 90 on April 9.

  • By assigning this name on March 17, 2023, the Council of Paris had once again departed from the practice which provides that the name of a personality can not be attributed to a public road in the capital before the five years following the death.

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