Editing Jacques Delors (section)

==Personal life and death==
Delors was married to Marie Lephaille until her death in 2020.<ref>{{Cite news|title=En souvenir de Madame MARIE DELORS|url=https://www.libramemoria.com/defunts/delors-marie/2e14ed56bbb9498c8fc93654fd1e2ae7|access-date=2023-12-28|website=libramemoria.com|language=FR-fr|archive-date=7 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707170006/https://www.libramemoria.com/defunts/delors-marie/2e14ed56bbb9498c8fc93654fd1e2ae7|url-status=live}}</ref> They had a daughter, [[Martine Aubry]], who served as [[First Secretary of the Socialist Party]] from 2008 to 2012,<ref name="europa1"/> and a son, Jean-Paul Delors, who was a journalist and died aged 29 in 1982 from [[leukaemia]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Drake|first=Helen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FlQYBmKBwp8C&pg=PA1|title=Jacques Delors: Perspectives on a European Leader|date=11 September 2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-80399-6|language=en|access-date=28 December 2023|archive-date=28 December 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228052923/https://books.google.com/books?id=FlQYBmKBwp8C&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>

Delors died in his sleep at his home in Paris, on 27 December 2023, aged 98.<ref>{{Cite news |date=27 December 2023 |title=Former EU Commission president Jacques Delors dies at 98 |url=https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231227-%F0%9F%94%B4-former-eu-commission-president-jacques-delors-dies-at-98 |publisher=[[France 24]] |access-date=27 December 2023 |archive-date=27 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231227165721/https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231227-%F0%9F%94%B4-former-eu-commission-president-jacques-delors-dies-at-98 |url-status=live }}</ref> He was honored with a [[state funeral]] at the [[Hôtel des Invalides]] in Paris on 5 January in the presence of political figures from all over Europe<ref>{{Cite news |date=5 January 2024 |title=France bids farewell to former EU chief Delors |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/european-union/article/2024/01/05/france-bids-farewell-to-former-eu-chief-delors_6403709_156.html |work=[[Le Monde]] |access-date=5 January 2024 |archive-date=6 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240106125907/https://www.lemonde.fr/en/european-union/article/2024/01/05/france-bids-farewell-to-former-eu-chief-delors_6403709_156.html |url-status=live }}</ref> before his burial alongside his wife and his son at the [[Fontaine-la-Gaillarde]] cemetery.<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 January 2024 |title=Obsèques de Jacques Delors: « Une vie tournée vers les autres »: l'homélie de Mgr Hérouard |url=https://www.la-croix.com/religion/obseques-de-jacques-delors-une-vie-tournee-vers-les-autres-l-homelie-de-mgr-herouard-20240106 |work=[[La Croix (newspaper)|La Croix]] |access-date=6 January 2024 |archive-date=6 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240106113415/https://www.la-croix.com/religion/obseques-de-jacques-delors-une-vie-tournee-vers-les-autres-l-homelie-de-mgr-herouard-20240106 |url-status=live }}</ref>