paparazzi" in Brialy's home. French singer Barbara would often sing at the piano. Director Jean-Pierre Melville shot in the château the last scenes of his 1970 crime film Le Cercle Rouge, where Alain Delon and Yves Montand are killed by the police. In his books, the autobiographical Le Ruisseau des singes (The river of monkeys) (2000) and the memoir J'ai oublié de vous dire (I Forgot to Tell You) (2004), Brialy revealed that he was bisexual. Brialy died on 30 May 2007, in his Monthyon home, after a long time with cancer. He bequeathed his Monthyon estate to the commune of Meaux, near Monthyon, with the following codicil: that the Meaux authorities would finance the estate's maintenance as long as his partner, Bruno Finck, would reside there. In the summer of 2020, Finck left the estate and, for "health reasons," moved to the south of France, upon which time the commune of Meaux assumed full ownership of the estate. At the end of January 2021, the mayor invited the association of the Friends of Jean-Claude Brialy to "work in close collaboration [with Meaux]" in the context of "enhancing" the star's "heritage." Honours : Commander of the Order of Cultural Merit (November 2002) Filmography As actor As director Églantine (1971) Les volets clos (1973) L'oiseau rare (1973) Un amour de pluie (1974) Notes References External links 1933 births 2007 deaths People from Bouïra Province French male film actors French film directors French male screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters French male stage actors French theatre managers and producers French LGBT actors Bisexual male actors LGBT film directors French LGBT screenwriters Commanders of the Order of Cultural Merit (Monaco) Best Supporting Actor César Award winners 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors Deaths from cancer in France Burials at Montmartre Cemetery 20th-century French male writers 20th-century LGBT people