Gilles Delluc’s articles and books were co-authored with his wife and widow Brigitte Delluc. One did not write without the other.
Gilles and Brigitte Delluc were specialists in Lascaux in particular, they spent two full weeks there day and night in 1975, but the couple studied and explored a lot of prehistoric caves in the Dordogne. Brigitte and Gilles Delluc formed an incredible duo, giving conferences all over the world.
Brigitte Delluc: Gilles was part of the Périgueux caving club and he was part of the team that discovered the Villars cave. From 1953 he entered the cave of Villars and participated in a lot of exploration. When the paintings were discovered in 1958, he made the first cave film. I see us again at the foot of the cave of Commarque, with Hubert de Commarque, who says to us: Why don’t you resume the study of the walls of the cave and an excavation? This is what happened in 1979, this is the origin of our Commarque study. The same in the 80s for the caves of Fronsac and Font Bargeix, it was a friend of the caving club of Périgueux who had discovered these caves, and we studied the walls of these two caves.
– Antoine Balandra
Gilles and Brigitte Delluc have therefore studied many caves, Brigitte’s two favorites: Villars and Commarque.