But after the farewell, don't try to pry your seats loose.
While the cameras will track every nuance of his grand farewell, do not forget that France are also bidding adieu to other heroes.
"I am up for that – but who do we invite?" This was to be the agenda for a catch-up later this week when he was hoping to get to my brother's farewell do from Glasgow University, where Charles had been the university rector for six years, and my brother Donald has been the official university piper for a lot longer.
Still, the email had a cheery farewell: "Don't forget - if you think anything in this newsletter may be of interest to a friend, why not email it on to them?" · Visitors to McDonald's will be delighted to hear the company plans to make visiting its "restaurants" a more dehumanising and soul-destroying experience.
If fans refused to rebuff him for his ties to underworld types like James Bouler, if using his family as a prop at retirement farewells didn't leave folks feeling hoodwinked, if an all-night gambling binge described in The Washington Post this summer didn't affect his Q-rating, why should a tryst?
I hate farewells, don't you?
In truth, in 1951, he deserved the electric chair, and he gets it, after one of the screen's most rapturous farewells, done in telephoto close-ups of Liz and Clift.
I hate farewells, don't you?& the terror of coming back to what is at once new& familiar, a reunion of two times chimed exactlythat leaves us estranged from ourselves, staring at shadowstrembling in the shade.
He was further surprised to see his first name misspelled "Novack" on the revolving advertising carousel that rings Rod Laver Arena, and then, because of a technical cock-up, his pre-filmed contribution to Lleyton Hewitt on his farewell evening did not make the cut alongside Federer, Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and Kyrgios.
