the day Alain Delon read letters from Poilus on RTL

Ten years ago, the week of June 25, 2014, Alain Delon had revived testimonies from Poilus on RTL on the occasion of the centenary of the start of the Great War. An exceptional moment: the star sat behind the microphone to read five letters written on the Field of Honor during the First World War.

“It’s a tribute to our fathers, grandfathers, to those who fought and often died so that we are here today,” explained the actor. When we think about the moment when these men wrote these letters to their families, to their children, to their fathers, to their mothers, it really makes you want to cry“.

Art lover, collector, actor Full sun, of The swimming pool a you Samurai was also a great nostalgic person and a history buff. A great admirer of General de Gaulle, he notably bought the original manuscript of the Appeal of June 18, 1940 at auction to offer it to his country.

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