Patricia Kaas: An impossible love story with Alain Delon—Mademoiselle who sings the blues captured hearts but remained unattainable. 💔
Patricia Kaas became famous immediately after the release of her first album. Along with fame came love…
When Alain Delon first heard the song “Mademoiselle Chante Le Blues” performed by singer Patricia Kaas on the radio, he instantly fell in love with her strong, chesty, feminine voice and tried to imagine what image was hidden behind this delightful timbre.
Soon Delon had an irresistible desire to meet “this Kaas.” He could have simply called her through his assistants, but he did not want to act so primitively. He decided to arrange the acquaintance somehow solemnly, beautifully…
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The year was 1989. Having found out where Kaas was giving his next concert, Alain Delon ordered himself a ticket to the Zenit hall and came to the show as an ordinary listener. As soon as Patricia appeared in the bluish light of the spotlights and sang the first verse, Delon realized that he was hopelessly lost.
He could hardly wait for the end of the concert and, without any ceremony, bypassing the guards with the help of his famous facial expressions – slightly squinting and raising an eyebrow, he walked towards Patricia with a huge bouquet of tea roses.
Smiling, he said: “I did not dare to present you with red flowers. This might frighten you. You would think: “What a self-confident guy!” and they would have denied me dinner right away…”
Patricia looked at the visitor carefully. The most handsome man in the world stood in front of her. The one she had admired since childhood. She couldn’t believe her eyes and blinked hard, hoping to drive the vision away.
Having said “yes” then, she was sure that this invitation was just a polite phrase, some generally accepted social gesture, and nothing would follow these words. But Delon was extremely serious. He clarified Patricia’s address, warning that he would be waiting for her at the entrance in a black Clio.
They went to the Maxim restaurant. Patricia ate almost nothing at dinner. She was simply paralyzed by his gaze, stories, manner of laughing loudly and predatorily devouring a steak with blood.
Patricia felt that an abyss separated them: Delon was a legend, a movie star, twice her age, and she was a debutante who came to luxurious Paris from the German border steelworking town of Habsterdieck. How can she attract the attention of such a person?
Under his gaze, she visibly shivered, as if she was chilling. She didn’t consider herself attractive—too pale, too thin, dressed stupidly, with bangs always in her eyes.
She didn’t know what “fondue franche-comté” was or how to eat it correctly. She gaped stupidly at the “creme Angers” and drank in large sips the exquisite rose wine, which Alain politely advised to savor and “sip”…
At the end of the evening, Alain invited her to meet again, made an appointment, then another, sent flowers. Gossip spread throughout Paris, which soon no one could refute. When Patricia, who was rapidly gaining popularity, was invited to appear on television in the supershow “Tous a la Une,” Delon unexpectedly showed up at the studio.
Not caring about the consequences, he snatched the microphone from the presenter and declared to the entire audience of millions: “She is so beautiful! She sings so divinely! She is a great actress and a stunning woman. I love her. And now I stop talking because I see that she is starting to blush.”
Handing over the microphone to the startled host of the show, Patrick Sabatier, Delon walked up to Patricia, kissed her on both cheeks, sat down next to her and intimately covered her hand with his. A tense silence reigned in the television studio, and the audience on the other side of the screen froze.
Patricia herself broke the pause. Freeing her hand, she stood up, red as a tomato, and walked unevenly towards the microphone to sing “Summertime.” Delon, having difficulty waiting for the final chords, jumped up and kissed her hand. Secular Paris was shocked.
The next evening, Alain, on the occasion of his name day, gathered his closest friends at the Trente restaurant on Place de la Madeleine. Patricia, naturally, was also invited.
She spent a painful day wondering whether it was worth going to this social event, where everyone would know Paris. In what form will she appear and, most importantly, in what capacity? Alain Delon’s girlfriends?
The word “girlfriend” sounded extremely vulgar. Especially in light of recent events and the marital status of her new admirer. His common-law wife, Dutch model Rosalie Van Bremen, is expecting a child.
Closer to the appointed hour, Patricia finally gave up and went to the restaurant. As soon as Delon saw her silhouette in the doorway, he rushed to meet her with a glass of champagne.
Alain did not leave Patricia a single step, brought her dishes with snacks, and amused her with witty stories. And at the end of the evening, he personally put her in a taxi, telling his friends that he would not allow such a beautiful young woman to leave at night with any of the guests.
And suddenly – an unexpected turn of events… Patricia, knowing how such novels end, herself, without any explanation, breaks off her relationship with Delon.
Soon after this, her new, extremely frank album “I call you on you” is released. One of the songs contains the following words: “While you lived like a prince, I sang for three sous at a provincial ball, dreaming of you…”
“I was dying of fear, feeling your presence in the hall, and then you came with flowers and hopes that true love is still possible…”
Naturally, Delon considered the new songs a belated recognition and did not stop pursuing Patricia, albeit incognito. I found out in which cities Mademoiselle Kaas was touring and went there to hear her voice, getting lost among the local audience. In the town of Plaisir, she accidentally notices him among the listeners and… forgets the words in the middle of the song.
At a press conference about the release of the album, Patricia makes the following statement: “I suddenly desperately wanted to sing about love. The main theme of the album is impossible love. So strong that you are afraid of it. So forbidden that you refuse it.”
None of those sitting in the hall had any doubt that these words were directly addressed to Delon…
After meeting with Alain, Patricia dramatically changed her image. If earlier she felt natural in the image of a teenage girl with thick eyebrows, a short haircut with unruly bangs, provocative makeup and appropriate concert costumes, now she wanted to be desperately seductive, desirable and even aggressive.
She understood that such a change in image could be dangerous – it would alert producers and frighten fans. But after the scandalous story with Delon, everyone expected some changes from her, so the transformation from the “ugly duckling” into a femme fatale was met with understanding.
From now on, Patricia appeared on stage in tight dresses made of gauze, thin silk and lace, more like underwear. Without hesitation, she trusted the stylists with her face, and they made it a real work of art – they gave her hair a noble shade of platinum and styled unruly strands, corrected her eyebrows, changed the pattern of her eyes and lips, making them attractive and provocative.
Patricia also decided to change the shape of her nose. The previously angular teenage body of Mademoiselle Kaas became flexible and languid.
The new Patricia behaved flirtatiously and cheekily.
Living in Paris and becoming increasingly successful, Kaas acquired her own home in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Her wardrobes are filled with expensive designer clothes and she can afford to waste money.
She had many affairs, but she was never married.
Several times fate gave her the chance to become a mother, but she never used it. Each pregnancy seemed untimely to her, and the man seemed too unreliable to be a father.
And for the singer herself, her career always remained in the foreground – it was the only thing that gave her a feeling of confidence and constancy.
Kaas admits that she often made the wrong choices in her life, which she now regrets. She speaks harshly about men, but does not blame them for anything.
Patricia never succeeded in having a family, and now she admits with slight regret in her voice: time has been lost. Millions are in love with her, but not a single one has given her female happiness…
