"Hold Up"

                                                                     "Déconfiture" 

"There are people who think that Michel Magne was crazy. Others think that he had created a character of an insane man until he became a victim of it. Mr. Magne had a roller coaster career: a very intense period in the 60s, up to ten films a year (Angelique, Les Tontons Flingueurs, Un Singe En Hiver, OSS 117, Mélodie En Sous sol...) and after, suddenly the bankruptcy of Herouville (On May 26, 1969, a severe fire devastated the entire left wing of the castle - the one that had just been rebuilt at great expense. All Michel's original sheet music, tapes, records, films and personal photos gone up in smoke) : no more films, no more orders. Costa-Gavras said a very beautiful sentence on this subject: "Sometimes the effects of very intensive fashion can be harmful in the long run. When fashion is over, we no longer see your qualities, we stick to you an image of "out ". I think he did not live his last years. His mad character caught up to the point where one night in December 1984, he brutally disappeared to go shoot himself in a hotel in Cergy Pontoise". (Source : Stéphane Lerouge about Michel MAGNE)