Pierre Palmade, Line Renaud, La Grande Sophie, Jean Castex… They pay tribute to Queen Régine – Le Figaro

“The night is an orphan”, “I love you for life”, “We have crossed the century by your side”… Artists and politicians greeted the queen of the night, who died this Sunday, May 1, at 92 years. The singer and actress Régine, ambassador of the Parisian night in the world who popularized the discotheque in France, died Sunday at the age of 92. An icon of the 1960s, she owned many nightclubs that bore her first name all over the world, starting with the mythical “Chez Régine” near the Champs-Élysées, which quickly became the meeting place for all of Paris and the jet. -set. His disappearance aroused great emotion among those who knew him. SEE ALSO – “I didn’t have a family”: singer Régine died at 92, she returned with emotion to her life for Le Figaro at 92 Deeply moved, comedian Pierre Palmade, a close friend of Régine for many years, expressed his pain, on Instagram: “I was in your little papers and I’m proud of it, you took me as I was without judging me. And that, I will miss, someone who loves me without judging me (…) I love you for all my life Régine, Your Pierre”, he wrote in particular in a long and poignant message . In a press release written at the request of the family, the comedian evokes his sensational journey: “The queen of the night is leaving: closure due to a long and great career”. “Leaving with her disco ball and her warm and reassuring banter”, she “had made the stars of the whole world dance for more than 30 years in her nightclubs”, continues this text sent to AFP. “La Nuit is an orphan, she has lost her Queen,” tweeted singer Line Renaud, while English singer and DJ Boy George, a member of the Culture Club group, hailed “the legendary French diva”. The performer of the song Du Courage, La Grande Sophie, shared the intense memory of her meeting with the queen of the night, recalling a great artist and a woman with an amazing character: “I had the impression that nothing impressed her (…) I was happy to meet her, a sacred temperament that had seen all of Paris parade in her place (…) Thank you Régine for this special moment that I will remember. Politicians are not left out. “Six letters on a neon, a voice, a few musical notes hummed on everyone’s lips and then the night: so was Régine”, tweeted Prime Minister Jean Castex. “We have crossed the century by your side, your sorrows and your joys merging with ours” affirmed the Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot, while the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, saluted the memory of “Queen of our sleepless nights” who “made his city vibrate like no one else”.