This great french music composer was also a great scuba diver. It was his second passion, if not the first, besides the music. He died underwater, trapped in a submarine cave, which he could not find the exit.
Five months after his death, on April 3, 1976 during the ceremony of César, François de Roubaix receives the César of the best composer posthumously for The Old Gun (1975). It is his father Paul De Roubaix who will come for the award on stage.