For the actor with a singsong accent (but not from Marseilles, he specifies: “I’m more from Languedoc, I speak Occitan too”), with whom we spoke at length during the TV Fiction Festival in La Rochelle, last September, the circle was complete, after 18 years of good and loyal service. The soul of the Mistral collapsed in full place, after a game of football with his great-grandson. “It’s a great ending for an actor. Roland dies peacefully”, he confided to us then, smiling. Michel Cordes had experienced the end of the soap opera well, especially, he told us, since he had “begun to distance himself. Because of my age, 77, quite simply, I wanted to rest. I never really lived in Marseille and it was a lot of travel, nights at the hotel…”.
But a few months later, the actor was found dead at home, in his pavilion in Gravels (near Montpellier), in the south of France, by firearm. Or when reality is far more tragic than fiction. What happened at the comedian’s home this Friday?
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