Roman bottle, the insolent touch-all artist

Roman bottle, the insolent touch-all artist
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Par Nathalie Simon
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DISPARITION - Avec coluche, il a fondé le Café de la Gare, en 1968. L’inclassable trublion s’est éteint à l’âge de 84 ans.Romain Bouteille, l’insolent artiste touche-à-tout Romain Bouteille, l’insolent artiste touche-à-tout

"Romain will become our invisible, but never our absence," says Gérard Lanvin. Man was unclassifiable, elusive, a UFO in the world of entertainment. They say no one is irreplaceable, Roman bottle is irreplaceable. His verb, successively flowered or chastised, his sparkling gaze behind his glasses, his sliced voice and his humorous laughter will remain in his memories. "what Romain did not teach me, I stole from him on stage," said his friend Coluche, with whom he founded the Café de la Gare in 1968. "it's a lie, there were eight of us!" rectified the touch-à-tout artist, author, actor, singer, sixty-eight assumed. He passed away Monday at the age of 84.

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