Doctors estimate that he actually died on Thursday, but friends and onlookers mistook his dying moments and subsequent stillness for an impromptu 'dying man' mime.
It was three days before anyone thought to take his pulse.
Tragic, a sad loss of a truly great Frenchman who single-handedly reviving the art of mime after everyone else agreed that it's shit.
The famous mime artists of Las Ramblas have organised a mass 'painted stand-still' as a tribute to the great man (and in order to distract tourists while their mates pick their pockets, like they do every fucking day).
