Cet après midi: Micheline Presle est décédée le jour de son 101e anniversaire
Cet après midi: Micheline Presle est décédée le jour de son 101e anniversaire
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00:00 Micheline Prell died on the day of her 101st birthday.
00:03 Garden in English, dedicated space.
00:06 Micheline Prell, 101 years old, her life in a retirement home.
00:13 Last of the actresses of her generation,
00:16 Micheline Prell blows her 101st candle this Tuesday, August 22, 2023.
00:21 She lives today in a retirement home that, like her, has lived a certain life.
00:28 Micheline Prell started her acting career in 1937.
00:35 This Tuesday, August 22, 2023, she celebrates her 101 years.
00:40 The opportunity to take an interest in the one who for a long time was one of the three
00:46 glorious of the golden age of French cinema, with the regretful Daniel Darieu and Michel Morgan.
00:52 And especially in her place of life, she who resides in a retirement home rich in history.
01:00 Indeed, Jean Cocteau's friend, Raymond Queneau or Charles Trenet, who by the way hates
01:08 that people talk about his age, is housed in the National House of Artists.
01:12 It is actually two castles, named Smith Champion and located on the town of Nogent-sur-Marne,
01:22 in the department of the Val-de-Marne.
01:23 These 17th and 18th century houses, surrounded by a 10-hectare English-style park,
01:31 belonged to one painter Madeleine Smith Champion (1864-1940) and the other to her sister photographer
01:40 Jeanne Smith (1857-1943).
01:43 In 1944, the properties were leased by the two sisters to the state, on the condition
01:52 that one of the two houses be affected to the creation of a retirement home for artists
01:57 and writers.
01:58 For many years and from its opening, this place was run by a French painter, Maurice
02:08 Leclerc, who was the first director of the National House of Artists.
02:16 Today, it is a private non-profit establishment, managed by the Foundation of the Housing of
02:24 Older People Dependent (EPAD).
02:27 It is well-equipped, conventioned, medicalized and equipped with social assistance, so that
02:35 artists can receive it without any income.
02:39 I would like to live there to the end.
02:43 It can accommodate 80 residents in privileged spaces and full of history.
02:50 The equipment allows the resident artists to continue their activities individually
02:55 or collectively.
02:56 A painting and drawing academy is available, as well as pianos for musicians and a conference
03:06 room that occupies a central place in the establishment.
03:09 The National House of Artists offers daily a diverse cultural programming, concerts,
03:18 readings, conferences, performances, projections.
03:21 Exhibitions are scheduled throughout the year, often monographic or collective which,
03:31 each time, allow to rediscover the work of some of the residents.
03:35 Activities that must certainly occupy Micheline Prell, she who lost her little girl, her daughter
03:46 Toni Marshall, two years ago, died in March 2020 of lung cancer.
03:49 A terrible ordeal for the actress, who still manages to stay positive.
03:57 Until the end, I would love to live, I have always loved her, she had in particular already
04:05 entrusted to Figaro.
04:06 A remarkable state of mind.
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