It is a tragic disappearance. Jean-Loup Dabadie died Sunday May 24 at the age of 81 following a long illness. It was his agent who announced the sad news toFrance Media Agency, thereby confirming information from the Figaro. The man of letters died at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital, from a disease other than Covid-19, said Bertrand de Labbey. He leaves behind a huge career marked by songs, scripts, sketches, plays and novels. The academician's family did not speak in the press. Her last wife Véronique Bachet, with whom he had been married since 1997, prefer to remain silent. Together, they went through hardships but they always remained united in adversity. Rather discreet about his private life, the man of letters appeared from time to time with his wife as at the Cannes festival in 2019.
Jean-Loup Dabadie and his wife: a beautiful love story
Véronique Bachet also looked after the children of Jean-Loup Dabadie, Clémentine, Clement and Florent, all from previous marriages. A role she brilliantly held while her husband was a brilliant lyricist. At the start of his career, Jean-Loup Dabadie wrote several books and is also the author of plays but he was mainly illustrated in the cinema and in the song. We owe him the scripts for several Claude Sautet films, such as Max and the scrap dealers or Caesar and Rosalie, as well as Yves Robert. He also signed the script forAn elephant cheats a lot and We will all go to paradise. "He was a man who, in life, was very gifted, with this charm, this permanent smile a little ironic", greeted his academic colleague Jean-Marie Rouart on the air France Info.
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