My whole life is there, in the graves of my dogs.” With these words you can see all the love that Alain Delon had for his four-legged friends. And in the grounds of his home in Douchy, during his lifetime, about 50 dogs found eternal rest.

Each with his own tombstone, with his name. Couples were buried together. A cemetery, to have them by your side forever. An eternal place where the French actor himself asked to be buried.

Alain Delon, the symbol of wild life and much love who died at the age of 88, has always found in dogs that true and sincere love that filled the inner loneliness with which he lived, especially in the last years of his life.

The actor has always lived with dogs and one of his first four-legged friends was Gaia, a female Dobermann.

“One day I shouted at him, I hit him on the back. She sat down and looked at me and I saw her crying.” From that day Delon realized how well dogs are able to convey their emotions: “Since then I have understood everything. Since then my dogs have always smiled,” he added.

A love that led him to help animals less fortunate than his own. Delon has always been among the main supporters of his friend Brigitte Bardot’s struggles for animal rights.

The actor also did not refrain from making sensational gestures. He once sent a helicopter to rescue a kitten whose paws had been severed. After he recovered, he received her at his villa.

In 2009, another episode showed his great love for dogs. Near Perpignan, a stray dog ​​ended up the victim of the cruel madness of a couple, a 22-year-old girl and her 17-year-old boyfriend, who doused it with gasoline and set it on fire.

That little Pinscher, later named Mambo, survived severe third-degree burns over 40% of his body.

The case caused great outrage and gave birth to a chain of solidarity in which figures such as the footballer Zinedine Zidane and Alain Delon himself took part.

Some time later, when the dog had recovered perfectly, the actor found himself passing through Perpignan and expressed his desire to meet Mambo.

L’Indépendant newspaper granted his wish and the actor said in an interview: “It was a wonderful gift”, adding that he had offered the services of his vet to treat Mambo and provocatively, he also said: “I even suggest those two bastards who did this, come work on my property to take care of them!”.

He also stated that in his afterlife he would like to be a dog to live with Alain Delon, showing that the dogs he has had lived in the best way and full of love.