DOUCHY, Aug 18: Emotional mourners gathered outside the countryside chateau in Douchy-Montcorbon, south of Paris, where French film legend Alain Delon died early Sunday at the age of 88.
Admirers left flowers as tokens of their appreciation for the movie star, best known for his roles in classics "Purple Noon" (1960) and "Le Samourai" (1967), outside his central French home.
"I was the first one here to put down a rose," said Marc as he bade adieu to his idol.
"What more can I say? French cinema has lost its greatest figure."
"I am very sad," Jean-Pierre Lecluse, who worked as a projectionist at Delon's property for 22 years, told AFP.
"I will never forget all of our memories and the first time I met him. It was memorable," said Lecluse, tearful and calling the actor a "wonderful man, a sacred monster of cinema". —AFP
