“He knew that the real France was a France of welcome,” said Macron of Aznavour’s mixed heritage and embracing of French culture.
Likening Aznavour’s literary genius to the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, Macron said: “In France, poets never die.”
Crucially, the French president also hailed Aznavour as an example of how much children of immigrants and refugees can give to their adopted country.
French critics had initially dismissed him as repulsively ugly, too short, with a terrible cavernous voice and dubious song titles.
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