Alain Delon had announced it well before his death: when he died, he would rest next to his 35 dogs in Douchy. But what the actor had kept secret was his wish to be buried next to…
We already knew that Alain Delon was buried alongside his 35 dogs on his property in Douchy, Loiret. But what we didn’t know yet was that Anouchka Delon’s father also had a very unusual last wish: to be buried with his favorite cat, Poupouss.
Alain Delon was buried according to his wishes
According to Daniel Broussin, his former driver and bodyguard, who attended the funeral of the Leopard on August 24 in a private chapel in Douchy, his last wishes were indeed respected. In any case, this is what the man who worked alongside him for 24 years recounted in the columns of Parisian this Sunday, September 22.
As he had requested, the legend of French cinema, who died on August 18 at the age of 88, was buried with his cat, who died a few years ago. “In particular, that Poupouss, the three-legged cat that the actor had frozen after his death, be placed with him in his coffin.”his former sidekick confided.
A three-legged cat that Alain Delon could not bring himself to bury when he died, preferring to freeze it so that it could one day be buried with him. Named Poupouss, the animal had been saved from euthanasia by Anthony Delon’s father after having its leg torn off in a car accident.
“At least there won’t be anyone to bother him anymore.”
An anecdote that was confirmed by Alain-Fabien, the youngest son of the film actor The Swimming Pool And Rocco and his brothers in his book Of the race of lords published in 2019. “What seems most improbable is true”, he explained to the magazine at the time. She. “When I tell my friends about my life, they say: ‘But it’s Netflix, man!’ For example, while looking for a bottle of alcohol at my father’s, I really came across his dead cat in the freezer.”he had written.
Not stingy with anecdotes, the former GIGN member, Daniel Broussin, concluded his interview with the newspaper with frankness: “Delon couldn’t stand the current world any more. His life was before. There wasn’t much that interested him anymore. Now, at least, there won’t be anyone to bother him anymore.”. He joined the women in his life, Mireille Darc, Nathalie Delon and Romy Schneider…