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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".
A charismatic actor who often performed his own stunts, Belmondo
switched in the 1960s to mainstream films and became one of
France's leading comedy and action heroes.
His decision to pursue a career in commercial cinema and to shun
the art houses led to criticism that he had wasted his
undisputed talent - something he always denied.
(Reporting by Elizabeth Pineau; Writing by Matthieu Protard;
Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)
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