French writer Robbe-Grillet dies
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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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The best-selling French writer Francoise Sagan, who has died aged 69, is to be buried on Tuesday in a village near where she was born in southwestern France, family friends said.
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Beloved French actor Philippe Noiret, whose neighbourly face was among the most familiar on the silver screen in France, died Thursday of cancer.Comment
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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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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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Foreign Corresp. One of France's most famous Bohemian writers, Francoise Sagan, has died at the age of 69.
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HONFLEUR, France - Francoise Sagan, author of the best-selling 1954 novel &quot;Bonjour Tristesse&quot; about seduction and infidelity among the idle rich, died Friday.
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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. Derrida was 74.
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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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Jacques Derrida, the influential French thinker and writer who inspired admiration, vilification and utter bewilderment as the founder of the intellectual movement known as deconstruction, has died.
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French philosopher Jacques Derrida, the  founder of the school of deconstructionism, has died of cancer  at the age of 74, France Info radio said on Saturday.
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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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One of the country's best-read columnists has died after suffering from a brain tumour, the Daily Mail says.
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French philosopher Jacques Derrida, the founder of the school of deconstructionism, has died of cancer at the age of 74, France Info radio said on Saturday.
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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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Morocco's former interior minister, Driss Basri, who was associated with a time of repression, dies in Paris.
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Pierre Messmer, a member of the French Resistance who was the country's prime minister from 1972 to 1974, has died at age 91, former President Jacques Chirac said Wednesday.