At the start of the evening, the 54-year-old actor and director was driving his vehicle on a departmental road in Seine-et-Marne, near the forest of Fontainebleau, when the accident took place. .
By AFP
HStar humorist with a tumultuous career, Pierre Palmade was very seriously injured Friday evening in the Paris region during a road accident, and his vital prognosis was engaged, like that of three other people.
At the start of the evening, the 54-year-old actor and director was driving his vehicle on a departmental road in Seine-et-Marne, near the forest of Fontainebleau, when the accident took place. .
“We have a main accident with the vehicle driven by Pierre Palmade and the vehicle arriving in front”, with a family on board, reported the Melun prosecution, contacted by AFP, confirming information from the JDD.
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In addition to this collision, a third “vehicle arrives and will hit the family vehicle from the rear”, added the prosecution.
The vital prognosis of the actor is engaged, according to a source close to the file. “Among the five victims, three had to be extricated from their vehicle, including Pierre Palmade”, according to the same source.
The actor was transported by helicopter to the hospital, as well as a pregnant woman and a man who were in the second vehicle. Their vital prognosis, and that of a six-year-old child who was also in the second vehicle and was evacuated by road, are engaged. An 80-year-old man, slightly injured, was in the third vehicle.
The facts took place on the D372, in the south of the department of Seine-et-Marne, between Villiers-en-Bière and Perthes. The Seine-et-Marne prefecture told AFP of a collision with “strong kinetics”.
An investigation, opened for “unintentional injuries by driver resulting in incapacity for work of more than three months”, was entrusted to the Melun Val-de-Seine police station, said the prosecution.
Father of a whole generation
Father of a whole generation of comedians, Pierre Palmade has established himself as a figure of the one-man-show and private theatre. He is a familiar face on the small screen and has starred in a dozen movies.
With his exorbitant gaze, his pointed profile, his silhouette all in legs and arms, he conquered a large audience, chaining successes with his one-on-stage, his boulevard plays (“If it was to be done again”, “Pierre et Fils”, “Le Comique”) and television audience records (“Les Fugueuses”, “Le grand restaurant”).
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Burlesque, his humor first targets the ordinary man with his little lies and pettiness then, over the years, will focus on himself, an anxious partygoer with ambivalent sexuality.
Born on March 23, 1968 in Bordeaux, to an English teacher and an obstetrician, Pierre Palmade stopped his HEC preparation at the age of 19 and left for Paris to become “funny and famous”.
It is in the midst of women that he forms his sense of humor, deliberately feminist and versed in self-mockery.
Critics recognize him as a talented writer who sums up in a few words the absurdity of everyday life and the disturbing intonations common to Muriel Robin, “his double”, “his sister”.
Companion of the night and his excesses, Pierre Palmade was sentenced in 1995 for cocaine consumption. In 2019, he was taken into custody for “use and acquisition of narcotics” after being falsely accused of rape.
At the end of the first confinement, he returned to the stage of the Théâtre du Marais in Paris to play “Assume, brothel! “. An echo of his own life, he who never hid his long journey towards the acceptance of his homosexuality.
