Postmodern French philosopher Jean Baudrillard dies
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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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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.
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Jacques Derrida, one of France's best-known philosophers and the founder of the deconstructionist school, has died of cancer at the age of 74, his entourage said.
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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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German expressionist artist Joerg Immendorff, famous for his surreal and provocative paintings and sculptures, died on Monday at age 61 in Duesseldorf after a long illness, his wife Oda Jaune-Immendorff said.
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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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PARIS - 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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Marcel Marceau, who revived the art of mime and brought poetry to silence, has died, French media reported Sunday. He was 84.
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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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E' stato tra i piÃ¹ influenti teorici della postmodernitÃ  Il suo pensiero ha messo in crisi le teorie di molti saperi                                              Addio a Jean Baudrillard l'intellettuale degli scandali
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Julien Gracq, a reclusive French writer  known for surrealism and who famously turned down France's  highest literary award, died at age 97 on Saturday.
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Alain Robbe-Grillet, the French  writer who pioneered the so-called new novel genre, dies at the age of 85.
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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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Chadian Prime Minister Pascal Yoadimnadji died Friday at a Paris hospital following a brain hemorrhage, the African nation's ambassador to France said. He was 56.
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The Indian guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, credited with setting the Beatles on the path to enlightenment, dies.
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French filmmaker Philippe de Broca, whose works include King of Hearts and That Man from Rio, died on Friday aged 71, according to a close aide.
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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.