Death of Clémentine Vergnaud at 31: the journalist’s funeral took place in her childhood village

Clémentine Vergnaud’s life changed on June 15, 2022. She has been feeling pain under her ribs for some time. She passes a scanner and the verdict falls: almost 30 years old, Clémentine Vergnaud suffers from cancer digestive rare and very aggressive. After a year and a half of fighting against the disease, the journalist from franceinfo and France Inter died on December 23at the age of 31. His funeral took place this Thursday, December 28 in Courlay, in Deux-Sèvres..

A close friend of Clémentine Vergnaud, Gabriel Farhi, Parisian rabbi and Jewish chaplain at the Georges-Pompidou hospital, gave some information on the funeral, as revealed Purepeople. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), he explained that a “ secular ceremony » took place before thefuneral, ” in the village where Clémentine grew upwith his parents “. In a previous post, he also revealed that the one he called “ his little bird » had married her partner at the hospital, a few weeks before her death. “ She asked me to sing something for her marriage “, he recalled.

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Her parents very close to her

Last June, his story flooded Twitter (now X). She agreed to speak on the podcast My life facing cancer: Clémentine’s diary, available on francetvinfo.fr. Clémentine Vergnaud also agreed to answer our questions in an article published on Gala.fr on June 30. She confided that her parents, very present at her side, were the only ones to find the right words. “ They are with me at every scan, every three monthsbecause they know these are important moments “, explained the young woman.

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