Film lovers are mourning the death of Claude Chabrol, the French New Wave director often called the Gallic Hitchcock. He died Sunday in Paris at age 80. His resume includes “Les Bonnes Femmes” (1959), “Le Boucher” (1970) and “Merci Pour le Chocolat” (2000). He is the second New Wave director to die this year, following  Eric Rohmer, who succumbed in January at age 89.