Commemoration for Odette and Moussa Abadi (September 11, 2012)

It was raining, but the weather was still mild in Montparnasse cemetery on Tuesday, September 11. A circle of some fifteen umbrellas – children and friends – surrounded the grave of Odette and Moussa, to whom we were paying tribute that day, with Daniel Farhi in the centre.

No solemnity or sadness, rather an evocative chat about the foibles of our dear Moussa – anecdotes that everyone was happy to share with great tenderness.

Daniel Farhi sang Psalm 91; Victor Haïm read a text from the “Meditation on Remembrance”, then a passage from a work by Martin Gray, followed by the El Malei Rachamim and the Kaddish.

A few stones on the grave, our heads and hearts full of the memory of our friends, we met again for a friendly drink at the bistro opposite, “Chez Papa”…. A funny coincidence, that café name (“Dad’s”), don’t you think?