France will hold a national ceremony to pay tribute to famed actor Jean-Paul Belmondo at Paris’ Hotel National des Invalides on September 9, said the French presidency on Tuesday. Belmondo, a star of France’s New Wave cinema after his breakthrough performance in Jean-Luc Godard’s A bout de souffle (Breathless) in 1959, died this week aged 88. The death of a leading figure in French cinema was felt across the country. President Emmanuel Macron tweeted on Monday that France had lost a ‘national treasure.’
