Tomorrow, the famous actor Alain Delon will be escorted to his last residence, after he passed away on Sunday at the age of 88. The ceremony will be held in the very private chapel he has built within the courtyard of his residence in Douchy-Montcorbon, a small town in the Centre-Loire Valley region, where the French film star lived for nearly fifty years.
He spoke to "La République du Center" in 2011 and spoke about his last bequest after his death and the desire to be buried in the place where he lived for decades. "It is the house of my life, where I want to end my days and where I want to die. I built a church there and I will be buried there among my dogs," he said during the interview. But burial on private land is an exceptional circumstance in France, and Delon actually submitted a formal written request to the prefecture two years ago.
The actor will be buried with his 35 dogs, which have died over the years. In fact, in 2018, in another interview with the French media, he requested that his dog say that he would request that his Belgian dog named Loubo "die in his arms" on the day of his death, through euthanasia. The family members opposed this request and did not fulfill this last bequest of the deceased actor.
Beyond that, Alain has requested that the entire funeral ceremony be very private with the presence of family members and only 40 people, without an official ceremony. People, although surprised by these requests of the late artist, from the dogs to the private rite of the grave ceremony, have not stopped placing bouquets of flowers and leaving writings with dedications at the gate of his residence.
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Source: Vanity Fair
