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Alain Delon buried in ‘strictest privacy’ in grounds of his estate

Carefully selected group of 40 mourners reportedly told to seal away phones at ceremony for French actor

After obtaining special permission from the local prefect, he will be interred in the chapel he had built at La Brûlerie, the property at Douchy in the Loiret, 85 miles south-east of Paris, which he bought in the 1970s and where he died. Delon had also requested a funeral mass conducted by the Catholic priest Monsignor Jean-Michel Di Falco, 82, the former bishop of Gap in south-east France and a longstanding friend of the actor. Di Falco oversaw the 2017 funeral of the actor Mireille Darc, Delon’s companion between 1968 and 1983 and the woman he described as “the love of my life”, as well as the musician and singer Charles Trenet and the French business tycoon Jean-Luc Lagardère.

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