The Death of Raymond Devos
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Thursday June 15, 2006 20:53
by iosaf
Raymond Devos the Belgian born, French resident & Francophone Cartoonist, Comedian, Political (& national) satirist has died of a brain hemorrhage today.
He was a very funny man who's humour & wit crossed borders & langauges.
He will be sorely missed. . Everyone who met Raymond Devos liked him. His jokes were both simple & intelligent. He'll be sincerely missed. He made many friends, most of whom will want to attend his sudden funeral. He won lots of important awards for being funny & clever but won't get a state funeral from either France of Belgium. Raymond Devos was in no common sense of the word a popular man. & sincere with it.
He rose to acceptance of his extraordinary talent through circus acts & written puns of astounding complexity. In 1956 He worked with Jean Luc Godard on the movie "Pierrot le Fou".
Devos was born in Mouscron in Belgium on the 9th of November 1922. He died at his home in Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse in Yvelines region of France earlier today. He is survived by his wife Simone Begiun - thier union had no offspring.
Tributes are already pouring in from the international clown and satirist community & fuller obituaries & funeral arrangements will be reported on soon. There will also be links to all francophone newspaper supplemental "special" re-publications of his cartoons. I presume his cartoons being the more accesible since his jeux de mots were just that - French. But jhis photo reproduced as illustration is probably resonant with an Irish readership..,
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