All Saints' Day is the time in the calendar dedicated to remembering our dead. And this date is all the more sensitive as the person's disappearance is near. For Anouchka Delon, the daughter of the actor who died this summer, it was “somewhere between two months without you”. She wanted to make a significant gesture on the day of “Day of the Dead”.
For Alain Delon's funeral, his daughter wrote him a long and tender tribute which she read on August 24, in the private chapel of the artist's home in Douchy, in the presence of a select committee. It is this text that she published on “All Saints’ Day. Day of the Dead” on Instagram this November 3.
In the publication, the sister of Anthony and Alain-Fabien Delon recalls how much this “feared dissatisfied but proven tender heart” was indebted to his audience.
Man of few words
“You often say that you owe everything to your audience, that it is they who made you. How you loved him, how he still loves you,” she wrote. And it is in this spirit that Anouchka decided to offer as a “gift” to the public of the deceased icon the “text that I wrote to you this past August 24, your mass”.
“Exterior. Day. Zoom on the oratory”: these are the handwritten words, which presented themselves as a script, with which the young woman began her four-page speech.
“We told lots of stories, about the young wolf and the cheetah. Those of Delon, of Alain, but today Dad, it’s yours that I’m going to talk about,” announces Anouchka Delon, who admits: “You’re a man of few words, and here it’s me who’s struggling to find mine.”
But the Samurai's daughter knew how to find the words, even if she quotes Alfred de Musset in passing. Paying tribute to the “eternal rebel”, who, she tells him, “always did what you wanted, always liked to prove to all these idiots that they were wrong”, the young woman allows herself a dream.
“How I would like you to prove us wrong once again, that you prove to us your immortality,” she states before assuring: “you will remain immortal, in the hearts of the people who love you, in the mine.”
Born in November
Addressing her darling father a declaration of love to close her tender filial missive, Anouchka Delon murmured her adaptation of the traditional song À la claire Fontaine: “Dad, I have loved you for a long time. I will never, never forget you…”
The actress also mentioned in her post her father's next birthday, November 8, and hers on the 25th of the same month. “My heart hurts at the thought of not being able to call you at midnight on the 8th. Hurts my heart not to hear your voice at midnight one on November 25th say to me: “Happy Birthday my Love”. Just writing it makes me want to cry,” she admits, adding “We let go of each other’s hands at 33 and 88 years old respectively.”
