French literary icon Sagan dies
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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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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.
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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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Honfluer, 24 settembre 2004 - Il libro che la rese piÃ¹ famosa lo scrisse a diciott&#39;anni: Francoise Sagan, morta questo pomeriggio in ospedale a Honfleur in Francia per uno scompenso cardio respiratorio, pubblicÃ² &quot;Bonjour tristesse&quot; nel 1954.
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French film star Philippe Noiret, whose trademark hangdog face delighted cinema audiences, has died, French authorities said on Thursday.Comment
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The world's best-known mime artist, Marcel Marceau, has died aged 84, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon's office said on Sunday.
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The world's best-known mime artist, Marcel Marceau, has died, France Info radio said on Sunday, saying his family had informed it of his death.
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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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Francoise Sagan, the French novelist who penned &quot;Bonjour Tristesse&quot;, an anthem to disillusioned youth that became one of the best-known books of the 20th century, died aged 69, family friends said.
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The world&#39;s best-known mime artist,  Marcel Marceau, has died, France Info radio said on Sunday,  saying his family had informed it of his death.
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French artist, who revived the art of mime and brought poetry to silence, has died. He was 84.
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Nagib Mahfuz, Egypt's most celebrated author and the only Arab to win the Nobel prize for literature, has died at the age of 94, several weeks after his health suddenly deteriorated.
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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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The French mime artist Marcel Marceau has died at the age of 83, one of his children told AFP on Sunday.
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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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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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Writer and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet,  an "enfant terrible" of France's literary establishment who  helped found the New Novel school in the 1950s, died on Monday  aged 85, his publishers said.