The rumbling psychodrama between Pompidou and de Gaulle took a strange new twist in the autumn of 1968. On 1 October, the body of Stephan Marcović, former bodyguard of the film star Alain Delon, was found in a dump outside Paris. The killer was never identified, but the police investigation discovered that Marcović had been in the habit of taking secret photographs at parties hosted by Delon, possibly with the intention of blackmailing the subjects. Among the celebrities rumoured to have attended these parties was Pompidou’s wife, Claude.
