Controversial French Author Francoise Sagan Dies
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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot  to fame with her first novel "Bonjour Tristesse" at the age of  18 and courted controversy throughout her life, died on Friday,  a hospital spokesman said. Sagan, who was 69, was an icon of  1950s intellectuals and lived the Bohemian lifestyle she  portrayed in her writing. She was a longstanding friend of late  President Francois Mitterrand and was convicted of taking drugs  and for tax evasion.
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HONFLEUR, France - Francoise Sagan, author of the best-selling 1954 novel &quot;Bonjour Tristesse&quot; about seduction and infidelity among the idle rich, died Friday.
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Former French Prime Minister Raymond Barre, an economist who also served as a European commissioner, died on Saturday, his family said. He was 83.
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France's second-most prestigious literary award, the Renaudot prize, has been awarded to a Jewish writer who died at a Nazi death camp &#151; the first time the prize honored a writer for posthumous work.
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The author, best known for the childrenâs classic âA Wrinkle in Time,â died Thursday at 88.
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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan dies at the age of 69 after suffering a pulmonary embolism.
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French novelist Pierre Daninos, best known for his best-seller "The diary of Major Thompson", died at the age of 91.
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Francoise Sagan, author of the best-selling novel "Bonjour Tristesse," died Sept. 24 of heart and lung failure in Normandy, France. She was 69.
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The death of one of the greatest figures in modern French literature, Henri Troyat, is announced in Paris.
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Samira Bellil, a prominent campaigner for the rights of French Muslim women who gained fame with a book recounting gang rapes she suffered as a teenager, has died of stomach cancer, her publisher Editions Denoel said Wednesday. She was 31.
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Henri Troyat, one of the great figures of modern French literature and one of France's most popular biographers, has died at the age of 95, the Academie Francaise said on Monday.
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World renowned thinker Jacques Derrida, a founder of the school of philosophy known as deconstructionism, has died, the office of French President Jacques Chirac said Saturday. Derrida was 74.
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PARIS (France): French philosopher Jacques Derrida has died of cancer at the age of 74 on Saturday, said sources. Jacques Derrida, the founder of the school of deconstructionism, has died of cancer at the age of 74, France Info radio said on Saturday.
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Foreign Corresp. One of France's most famous Bohemian writers, Francoise Sagan, has died at the age of 69.
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Alain Robbe-Grillet, an avant-garde author who dispensed with conventional storytelling as a pioneer of the postwar "new novel" movement in France, died Monday. He was 85.
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The French mime artist Marcel Marceau dies at the age of 84, the AFP news agency reports.
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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan has died in the north-western town of Honfleur aged 69. She died of heart and lung failure a few days after being admitted to a local hospital.