“I want incense, choir children … The total!”: Thierry Ardisson left “instructions” for his funeral

“The day I feel the end approaching, I will decide all the details for my burial“, had entrusted this figure of TV to the newspaper Le Parisien, during the release in May in his testament book,” The man in black “.

“I would like the three women I married are there“. However, also told the magazine Le Point Thierry Ardisson, married since 2014 to TF1 journalist Audrey Crespo-Mara.

“I want incense, choir children … Consequently, the total! I already have all the playlist in mind“He added to the weekly, citing David Bowie.

“They were not words in the air” et “He left instructions“confirmed his entourage to AFP on Monday.

The details were not communicated at this stage.

He had also chosen to reveal himself in a documentary directed by his wife. “the hidden face of the man in black”, whose “i want incense, choir children broadcast date is not yet known.

Personality to the freedom of your claimed. a TV man for four decades, Thierry Ardisson died in Paris on Monday from liver cancer, his wife and children announced in a statement to AFP.

Always all dressed in black-which earned him his nickname-and flanked by an eternal smile. he jostled the French audiovisual landscape with his talk-shows where the all-Paris went, as “midnight baths”, presented from the nightclub of the Bains Dish Baths in Paris, “Everyone speaks about it”, “93, Faubourg Saint-Honoré” or even “Hi Terriens”.

His cash. even intrusive interviews, as is his sense of formula, established his character: cathodic genius for his admirers, arrogating Parisianist for his contemptors, Thierry Ardisson did not leave indifferent.

With “A spirit tinged with curiosity. irreverence“, il “helped write the history of French television“Said the Elysée in a press release.