funerals by Denise Bombardier on Friday will take the form of a tribute concert but will remain “sober” to respect the last wishes of the deceased.
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“At the end of her life, my mother said to me, ‘My life was a spectacle and my death will not be one.’ I respect his wishes,” summarizes Guillaume Sylvestre, son of Denise Bombardier, who died on July 4th.
The final tribute to the author, presenter and columnist will take place on Friday at the Saint-Viateur church in Outremont.
The invited audience
The burial is open to the public, but no pictures are taken inside the church. Journalists can still attend the ceremony and report the facts.
It will be a “sober” ceremony, specifies Mr. Sylvestre.
At 4:30 p.m., a motorcade will arrive at the scene of the accident. At 5 p.m. there will be a speech by Guillaume Sylvestre, followed by a tribute concert for his mother. The artists will only be announced on site. No trade fair is planned.
The public can then gather on site between 6pm and 7pm when the coffin is being taken away.
The flag atop the central tower of the Quebec Parliament will be flown at half-staff from dawn to dusk on Friday to “honour.” […] Ms. Bombardier and her contribution to Quebec culture,” Prime Minister François Legault announced in a press release on Thursday.
Away quickly
Ms. Bombardier breathed her last on July 4 at the age of 82 after a long battle with cancer.
Her husband, James Jackson, told the Journal that she left in less than a month. After two weeks of hospitalization at CHUM, she was transferred to the Saint-Raphaël palliative care unit in Outremont, where she died peacefully surrounded by her loved ones.
The announcement of his resignation sent shockwaves and a shower of tributes from many public figures, including Prime Ministers François Legault and Justin Trudeau.
In the tributes, the deceased was described, among other things, as “great intellectual”, “courageous”, “stubborn” and “capable of joining the people”.
Born in 1941, Denise Bombardier was the first woman to host a public affairs program in Quebec and published more than twenty books. She was a columnist for Le Devoir and the Journal de Montréal for more than 20 years.
One of the defining moments of her career was undoubtedly her televised confrontation with pedophile author Gabriel Matzneff in 1990. She was then the first courageous voice to speak out against Matzneff, who was later investigated for raping a minor just 30 years old .
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