Daughter of Jean Gabin and Dominique Fournier born in 1949, Florence Moncorgé-Gabin came accompanied by her son Jean-Paul to the philharmonic concert Delon: the last Samurai organized on November 8, 2024 at the Palais des Congrès in Paris. Having the same features as her famous dad, the daughter of the actor who died on November 15, 1976 inherited his crystalline blue eyes, just like her grandson. The opportunity for her to meet Alain Delon's two sons, Anthony (who came with his daughters Loup and Liv) and Alain-Fabien, and his partner Laura, but also many personalities like Samy Naceri and his fiancée Sofia Athena, Chantal Ladesou and her husband Michel Ansault or Nelson Monfort or Pascal Praud and his wife Catherine.
Very close friends, Alain Delon and Jean Gabin shot three films together: Melody in the basement (1963), The Sicilian Clan (1969) then Two men in the city (1973). Interviewed by The Point, Alain Delon had revealed the secrets of their unshakeable friendship which began when they met in the 1960s just before the shooting of their first film. “The first time I saw Jean Gabin at the cinema – in any case, the first significant time – was in Touchez pas au grisbi, by Jacques Becker. I was in Saigon, in 1954, a young volunteer soldier If, at that time, someone had told me that I would be filming with him, I would have laughed afterwards, when I did this job, in my mind, shooting with Gabin was truly the pinnacle. It was the biggest, the most beautiful, the most important“, confided Anouchka Delon’s father.
Jean Gabin was Alain Delon's “god”
Very proud to have been able to film with this monster of French cinema, he added: “I admired him so much! And he loved me very much. I knew it because you could tell right away when Gabin didn't like it. It was terrifying. He didn't even speak to the people he despised. He turned his head away. (…) Gabin, he was my God.”
A friendship which lasted until the death of Jean Gabin, now forty-eight years ago.
