For just over 50 years, an imposing estate in the tiny community of Douchy-Montcorbon, a couple of hours’ drive south of Paris, has been home to one of the best known, most dashing and wealthiest figures in French cinema.
Alain Delon, 87, who appeared in more than 90 films on both sides of the Atlantic, bought the property when he was in a relationship with the actress Mireille Darc. In the years since, several other women took up residence alongside the former heartthrob whose good looks turned him into an international sex symbol in the 1960s.
