Vintage photo of Yves Montand with his wife Carole Amiel

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He was afraid that people would characterize his decision as a bit ridiculous and quite irresponsible. He was, of course, the president of the festival, but everyone implied his supposed candidacy and his supposed election to the presidency of the Republic. In France he admired Trenet, Maurice Chevalier, Pierre Mondy's friends, Pierre Brasseur… they were all a group. If he was against something or something he liked he would pick up the phone and talk to his close friends for hours… Constantly all morning this was the situation! It was also another reason why people at that time were so excited about the candidacy of a man like Yves Montand… Ronald Reagan, also a rather second-rate film actor, was president of the United States at the time.So a New York Times journalist gave him a very interesting and lengthy interview on the occasion of his new film and all the material. All our press photos are LIMITED ARCHIVE ORIGINALS - they are the actual prints that were used by the newspapers, they are not reprints or digital prints produced by us. With our high quality and fast digitizing process, we help newspaper archives in converting their physical prints into digital format. He took, for example, Bernard Kouchner, a socialist politician, as foreign minister, but Kouchner could do nothing; Sarkozy decided everything!

It was very simple, it was in favor of a political opening to the whole spectrum of the political world. He was in the second round with Jean-Marie Le Pen, the candidate of the far-right party (who had passed to the second round for the first time). The path of the total eclipse of August 2017 had our offices at 99% totality - we closed the office to go watch the spectacle, but first we put together this gallery inspired by eclipses to celebrate. He was hesitant because he thought a lot about the reactions of the people, he was bothered by the idea that he was already 67 years old.After all, he did not have a party to support him and he knew that without a party support it was impossible to get elected! As expected, Montan at some point began to talk about politics and the political situation in the world, in America and France in particular. There were days when his parents left in the morning for work and the two and three children were left alone all day and had to share one and only egg for food! Yves Montand had told me "It would have been crazy to accept the role, but it would have been even more crazy if I had turned it down! Mainly because she learned it from the newspapers, he did not have time to talk to her or explain to her… Simon was very hurt by this story.

These cookies help to provide information about the metrics, the number of visitors, the dropout rate, the source of traffic, etc. We assist them in setting their prints free for future generations to access and appreciate them and their historical value.They met in Saint Paul de Vence where Montan had gone to see his friend Jacques Prevert, they had mutual friends, so they met and fell in love… Simone was married then and divorced to live with Montan. It was, after all, a very good time because everyone was locked in their homes… they had a lot of free time! Release your emotions, because if you do not do that, the dam that holds them will one day burst open. He did not have the slightest idea in his mind about such a thing… It all started from nothing, from a phrase of a journalist! A destiny out of the ordinary for the sacred monster of song and cinema that still embodies a certain image of France around the world.