Quebec's artistic community gathered today to say goodbye to popular actor and singer Claude Blanchard, who died at the of age 74.
Singer Ginette Reno was at the funeral to sing two songs made famous by Mr. Blanchard.
Hundreds of fans lined outside the church, near Repentigny east of Montreal.
Mr. Blanchard died Aug. 20 of a heart attack a couple days after leaving hospital for a lung operation.
He was a vaudeville entertainer and cabaret owner whose life inspired a popular CBC television mini-series Music Hall.