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Jean-Loup Dabadie is gone

The Academecien was a long-time FCG fan

Jean-Loup Dabadie died on Sunday 24 May at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, aged 81.

Born in Paris, he had spent his youth at La Tronche, during which time he became attached to the FCG. An attachment that lasted throughout his life, as he came, whenever he could, to attend the "Rouge & Bleu" matches at the Stade Lesdiguières or the Stade des Alpes.

Scriptwriter, journalist, director, lyricist, Jean-Loup Dabadie had exercised his talents as a man of letters with some of the greatest artists of the last 50 years: actors, such as Guy Bedos or Pierre Palmade, singers, Marcel Amont, Julien Clerc, Dalida, Claude François, Johnny Hallyday, Michel Polnareff, Michel Sardou, Serge Reggiani, etc., directors, Yves Robert, Claude Sautet, François Truffaut, etc.

He entered the Académie Française in 2008.

To the family and friends of Jean-Loup Dabadie, the FCG extends its most sincere condolences.