Alain Robbe-Grillet, 85, French Author, is Dead
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Alain Robbe-Grillet, an author and filmmaker who was one of Franceâs most important avant-garde writers in the 1950s, died on Monday. He was 85. He died at a hospital in western France where he had been admitted over the weekend for cardiac problems, o...
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Jacques Derrida, 74, originator of the diabolically difficult school of philosophy known as deconstructionism, died Oct. 9, the office of French President Jacques Chirac announced.
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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot to fame with her first novel "Bonjour Tristesse" at the age of 18, died on Friday, a hospital spokesman said. Sagan, who was 69, courted controversy throughout her life 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 fraud.
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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot to fame with her first novel &quot;Bonjour Tristesse&quot; at the age of 18, died on Friday, a hospital spokesman said.
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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan dies at the age of 69 after suffering heart and lung failure.
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Raymond Barre, who was French prime minister for five years from 1976-81, has died in Paris, aged 83.
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Jacques Derrida, one of the most influential philosophers of the latter half of the 20th century has died at the age of 74, the BBC reported Saturday.
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French philosopher Jean Baudrillard, whose provocative, paradoxical style was reflected in the title of his 1991 work "The Gulf War did not take place", has died, his publisher Galilee said on Wednesday. He was 77.
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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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Alain Robbe-Grillet, the French writer who pioneered the so-called "new novel" genre in the 1950s, died Monday at the age of 85, the Academie Francaise (French Academy) said.
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Edward Behr, a noted British foreign correspondent and writer who penned books on history, good eating and his career as a journalist, has died in Paris, his family said Sunday. He was 81.
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Jacques Martin, the French television personality once married to now-first lady Cecilia Sarkozy, died Friday. He was 74.
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New French actor Philippe Noiret, famous for his roles in 'Cinema Paradiso' and 'Il Postino', breathed his last in Paris on Thursday at the age of 76 years, the French culture ministry said.Comment
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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.
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Marianne Fredriksson, one of Sweden's best known and most translated authors, has died at the age of 79, Swedish media quoted her agent as saying on Sunday.
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Raymond Barre, a prominent economist who served as French prime minister during the presidency of Valery Giscard d&#39;Estaing in the 1970s, has died Saturday aged 83, his family announced.
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French philosopher was the father of deconstructionism. Derrida died Friday of pancreatic cancer at age 74, French media reported.