“Like the funeral of a great godfather in Sicily”: Nicole Calfan among the rare guests at Alain Delon’s funeral

French actress Nicole Calfan, among the forty guests at Alain Delon’s funeral on Saturday at his property in Douchy (Loiret), confided on Monday that “we felt like we were at the funeral of a great godfather in Sicily with all the beauty that entails”.

Interviewed by the CNews channel, the actress who was Delon’s partner in “Borsalino”, a film by Jacques Deray in 1970, added that the funeral was “incredible and so dignified (…) with the fervor, these white flowers and his black coffin.”

The actor was buried in the strictest privacy near his dogs in the chapel of his property, as he wished, an “exceptional” procedure which required prefectural authorization.

Mobile phones even had to be taken away from everyone present, for reasons of confidentiality. At the family’s request, the prefecture had also banned flying over the property for the entire weekend.

Alain Delon’s funeral in Douchy: “We had to be there to thank him”

“There was so much love, so much complicity,” said Nicole Calfan. “As Anthony (Delon, one of the actor’s sons, editor’s note) said, all the people who were there were really Alain’s friends. We knew why we were there. We were all loved in a different way.”

“The children all spoke magnificently, with a lot of emotion, with incredible poise in emotion and sorrow. It’s like their father,” concluded the actress, refusing to go into details of the ceremony in order to “respect Alain’s wishes.”

AFP