France mourns Francoise Sagan, author of 'Bonjour Tristesse'
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France mourned the passing of writer Francoise Sagan, who shot to literary fame with her first novel Bonjour Tristesse, and prepared for her funeral next week.
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Arts & entertainment: French president pays tribute to man who revived the art of mime and brought poetry to silence.
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Jacques Chirac is remembered abroad as the French president who stood up to the United States over the Iraq war and battled for national influence in a globalising world, but at home the legacy of his monumental career remains deeply ambiguous.
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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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A current best-seller in France, which was written shortly before its Jewish author was sent to her death in Auschwitz, has taken 62 years to be published.
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NANCY -- A French antinuclear protester was killed yesterday in eastern France when his leg was severed by a train carrying radioactive waste to Germany, officials said. Paramedics quickly cared for protester Sebastien Briat, 21, after the accident near the town of Avricourt, but he died on the way to a hospital, officials said. He had been surprised by the ...
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MONTREAL (CP) - A French tourist died Monday during a snowmobile accident in Montpellier, in the Outaouais.
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France's pride in its thinkers was splashed all over the news in praise of Jacques Derrida, who died last weekend.
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French defense minister Michelle Alliot-Marie addresses reporters on the steps on the defense ministry in Paris Saturday, Nov. 6, 2004, after eight French soldiers were killed and 23 wounded in Ivory Coast
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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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November 8, 2004 -- STRASBOURG, France - An anti-nuclear activist died yesterday when his leg was cut off by a train transporting nuclear waste to Germany, France&#39;s SNCF railway operator said.
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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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STRASBOURG, France  - An anti-nuclear activist  died in France on Sunday after having a leg cut off by a train  transporting nuclear waste to Germany, France's SNCF railway  operator said.
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French President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin sent Sunday their condolences to Asian tsunami victims.
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France flew home its nine dead soldiers from the Ivory Coast yesterday. The nine died in violence at the weekend that presented a bleak contrast to the long-cultivated image of the
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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 Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie and Britain's Princess Anne presided over a ceremony commemorating the members of the SAS who lost their lives during World War II.