Biografie

He loved speed, especially motorcycles. He even earned a record in the Guiness book of records on September 29th, 1985, on the race circuit of Nardo (Italy), when he reached the speed of 252.087 kilometers per hour (156.546 mph) on a Yamaha 750cc. Sadly, he died in a motorcycle accident only nine months later (and while he wasn't going too fast).

He also founded the charity "Les Restaurants du Coeur" which still provides free meals and other products to people in need.

In March 2011, a bronze statue of Coluche, dressed in his trademark striped dungarees, was unveiled in his hometown of Montrouge (suburb of Paris).

He died after crashing his Honda 1100 VFC into a truck on the "route de Cannes" a road in the commune of Opio, Alpes-Maritimes in southeastern France. He was 41. This event provoked national grief and inspired the album Putain de camion ("damn truck") by his close friend Renaud. Some conspiracy theories have since surfaced, mainly in the book Coluche, l'accident: contre-enquête,[4] alleging that Coluche might have been murdered.

Candidate for the presidence of French Republic in 1981