Already 43 years since René Goscinny left us, after a tragic exercise in effort at his doctor’s. He was only 51 years old. But the screenwriter is not forgotten and, this Thursday January 23, Paris inaugurated a bronze statue bearing his effigy, in a small park in the 16th arrondissement, at the corner of Boulainvilliers and Singer streets, opposite the building in which he lived.
“The two of us just got out of this building a lot,” his daughter Anne recalls today. “These walks are my most precious memory. His face was famous, we recognized him, “she writes on the website of theGoscinny Institute. “Often people spoke to him and sometimes he signed autographs, with a cheerful eye, elegance in the formula. I was proud that we stopped him because we thought he was beautiful. ”
But obviously, if people approached René Goscinny, it is because he brought them happiness thanks to his stories. It is therefore quite natural that the sculptor Sébastien Langloys represented him with four of his most famous characters: Asterix, obviously, which he created with Albert Uderzo, the Little Nicolas, drawn by Jean-Jacques Sempé, the infamous vizier Iznogoud, who lived under the pencil of Tabary and Lucky Luke. Morris alone had invented the cowboy, but later, Goscinny had signed the script for his most beautiful adventures.
“I know he’s watching us”
“From the bedroom window, he saw this patch of land on which his statue now reigns,” continues Anne Goscinny. I hope that his gaze will protect passersby and that his characters will make children smile. Today, I know he is looking at us from here, from this patch of land and higher, much higher. I hear her laugh. And you?”
This monument is the first dedicated to comics in Paris. This makes a new place to visit in the French capital.
Michel Pralong
Created: 23.01.2020, 6:19 p.m.
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