French author Gracq dead at 97
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French author Julien Gracq, one of the last links with the pre-World War II Surrealist movement, has died at the age of 97, his family said Sunday.
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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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Raymond Barre, who was French prime minister for five years from 1976-81, has died in Paris, aged 83.
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French film and television composer Michel Colombier, who was a co-author of the score for Prince's film "Purple Rain" and who collaborated with a galaxy of French stars including Charles Aznavour and Serge Gainsbourg, has died at age 65, his family said on Wednesday.
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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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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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French film director Philippe de Broca, who made his name in the 1960s with comedies starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, has died at the age of 71 from cancer.
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Pierre Salinger, 79, dies: The press secretary to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and foreign correspondent for ABC News dies in France.
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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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French film star Philippe Noiret, whose trademark hangdog face delighted cinema audiences, has died, French authorities said on Thursday.Comment
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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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Former French Prime Minister Raymond  Barre, an economist who also served as a European commissioner,  has died, his family said on Saturday. He was 83.
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Newspapers in France bid a sad adieu to a literary icon.
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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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DEAUVILLE, France  - Belgian filmmaker   Remy Belvaux, whose sole feature "Man Bites Dog" became a cult   hit, has died, his family said Wednesday. He was 38.
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Apparel designer Liz  Claiborne, who founded a namesake women&#39;s sportswear label that  grew into a multibillion dollar global empire, has died at age  78, the company said on Wednesday.
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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.