Cabu, whose real name is Jean Cabut, was buried as he lived, with discretion. The brilliant cartoonist whose essential stroke of a pen made the French laugh for almost sixty years, was laid to rest Wednesday in his hometown of Chalons-en-Champagne, the prefecture of the Marne. His family had wanted his funeral to take place in private. Only sixty relatives and friends attended.
Cabu, fierce designer and yet the eternal dreamer round glasses and bowl haircut, was murdered in cold blood by Kouachi brothers jihadist terrorists, there is a week to the day during the editorial meeting of Charlie Hebdo, right Paris. Under a sky that was crying and in a cold atmosphere, Luz, one of the survivors of the team, Philippe Val, former boss of Charlie and several other members of the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné, accompanied Cabu included in its last home in Chalons-en-Champagne.
In the western cemetery, a white tent had been erected near the family vault of Cabut to welcome attendees. The funeral lasted a short time, about half an hour. All along, some musicians played jazz, which was one of the great passions of Cabu. After the ceremony, family and friends gathered in Chalons-en-Champagne restaurant where the artist liked to come when he was passing through his hometown.
Cabu has not had time to celebrate his 77 years, he would have had yesterday 13 January. During his long career of six decades, the most iconic cartoonist Charlie Hebdo and Chained Duck has made no fewer than 35,000 drawings. These are mostly caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, as well as those of Charb, which earned him to be executed by two "rednecks", as he called them idiots of all kinds, both "rednecks" beasts but also very bad.
