It was his last fight. He gave up his arms. Bernard Tapie died this Sunday morning, defeated by the cancer he had been battling for years. "He left peacefully, surrounded by his wife, children, grandchildren and brother, present at his bedside," his family said in a statement to La Provence. A controversial figure, his death cut France in two. On the one hand, Nanard's admirers were ready to forgive the sympathetic and cheeky crook of his "Guignols de l'info" puppet for everything. On the other, those, on the left as on the right, who hated this French-style Berlusconi, a mixture of business and politics.
