This woman of heart, who had devoted the end of her life to making documentaries defending noble causes, died on August 28, 2017, at the age of 79, after having survived two open heart operations and two cerebral hemorrhages. But it is an understatement to say that the five years that have passed since that sad date have not been enough to erase his smile from the memory of his countless fans, but also, and above all, from the minds of those who shared his privacy.
And if there is a man whose name will forever be associated with that of Mireille Darc, it is Alain Delon. Luchino Visconti and Jean-Pierre Melville’s favorite actor had a long and passionate love story with the one everyone nicknamed the “Great Grasshopper”. A relationship so strong that it had survived their breakup without difficulty, to become an unfailing friendship. This Sunday August 28 will therefore have been a day to mark with a black stone for the star. However, in these hours of grief, fate gave him the opportunity to pay a tender tribute to the woman of his life. To commemorate this anniversary, as painful as it is, Universal’s Pantheon label had the good idea to release a double LP, only in vinyl version, bringing together around thirty songs that the sublime blonde had performed in the 60s. Titles written for her by big names like Serge Gainsbourg, Jean-Jacques Debout or Pierre Delanoë.
Your love is my paradise lost
A disc sent in preview to the actor, who inspired him with a very personal message to his dear departed, broadcast via AFP last Sunday: “ Mimi, if I had to draw the shape of your universe, I would give it the shape of a heart, he wrote. If I had to sculpt a woman, it would be you… Your love is my paradise lost… “Reading these words, it seems that the 86-year-old star will never really recover from this terrible loss, and that the one who now seems to prefer solitude to the company of men would only be eager: to join the loved one. in a supposedly better world.
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