2024-04-05 23:17:44
The funeral service of Paul Houde, who died suddenly at the age of 69 in March, was held on Friday until 7 p.m. at the Montreal Planetarium.
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A good friend of the deceased, also a presenter and columnist, Thérèse Parisien, was invited on the set of the TVA Nouvelles 5 p.m. bulletin to explain the choice of the location for this honorary ceremony, we must admit, comes out of the ‘ordinary.
“It’s completely logical,” says Ms. Parisien, “he was crazy regarding astronomy. He was an avid amateur astronomer. He loved everything in heaven.”
“He did a lot of observation,” she adds. He had a telescope, he even had several and he did observation and he really liked eclipses.
She assumes, with a smile on her lips, that next Monday, during the total eclipse, Paul Houde would have been in the place where he might have observed it the longest if he had still been alive.
She says that in 2015, they both went out to “do a little scouting” to find the “drop-off point”, “the place where the eclipse lasted the longest”.
Although Paul Houde died more than a month ago, Ms. Parisien maintains that she “thinks that the shock has not passed for anyone.”
“The Earth opened up under our feet quite unexpectedly because we knew he had undergone an operation, it had indeed been, and obviously there were complications,” he saddens. She.
The guest maintains that Mr. Houde’s departure was “hasty”.
“I don’t know why,” she continues, “we didn’t imagine it. We think of the people who went to see him today and who knew him and heard him on the radio, this flamboyant radio man who had a love of the public and a passion for radio.
“I don’t know why,” she repeats, “but we expected him to be there a lot longer.”
Paul Houde’s passion for radio was an element that defined his character, says Ms. Parisien.
“He loved humor, he loved acting – we remember Fern in Les Boys – he loved many things, but his real passion, and he told me that I don’t know how many times: “I’m a radio man, radio is my passion, it’s the radio that I like.”
The love that Paul Houde had for the profession of radio presenter was due to the closeness with people that this medium allows to obtain.
“The way of being able to talk and interact with people, to have the impression of being there with them. He was truly a radio man,” confirms the columnist.
***Watch the full interview with Thérèse Parisien in the video above***
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