WWII French Resistance leader dies
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Gen. Alain Le Ray, a World War II Resistance leader whose escape from a notorious Nazi prison forged his image and career, has died at the age of 96, his family said Thursday.
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One of the last two surviving French World War I veterans, Louis de Cazenave, dies in his sleep at the age of 110.
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Baron Guy de Rothschild, who managed his family's French banking empire and saw it taken over first during the Nazi occupation and then by a Socialist government 40 years later, has died. He was 98.
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Maurice Papon, the French Nazi collaborator who died at the age of 96, became the symbol of bureaucratic inhumanity after he was convicted for helping organise the deportation of Jews during the Vichy era.
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France honored nearly 2,000 Paris police officers Thursday who led a bloody World War II uprising against their Nazi occupiers days before Allied troops liberated the city.
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A Romanian church leader who was exposed as a collaborator a week ago dies of a heart attack.
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PARIS, Oct. 22 -- Guy MÃÂ¿quet was only 17 when he was executed by a Nazi firing squad, becoming a symbol of the Resistance's fight to free France. President Nicolas Sarkozy says MÃÂ¿quet is just the kind of patriot the country needs today.
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French war criminal Maurice Papon died aged 96, four years after being released from a jail term for his role in the World War II deportation of French Jews to Nazi death camps.
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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, a family member said.
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BRUSSELS -- An elder statesman of French literature who fought for the Resistance in World War II is gearing up to do battle again, in Brussels: Maurice Druon, 89, is campaigning to make French the supreme language of legal documents in the European Union.
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A Vietnamese spy who worked for the CIA and Western media while remaining a communist agent dies.
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A anti-nuclear protester has died after his leg was severed by a train carrying atomic waste from France to Germany. The 23-year-old lay down on the track as the train passed near the town of Avricourt, eastern France.
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Britain and France paid tribute on Tuesday to one of the greatest spies of the Second World War, a little-known Baltimore woman who organized resistance and sabotage behind Nazi lines despite a prewar hunting mishap that left her with only one leg.
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Pierre Salinger, former press secretary to John F Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson, and France&#39;s &quot;most French of Americans&quot;, has died of heart failure at 79.
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A French anti-nuclear protester was fatally injured yesterday when his leg was severed by a train carrying radioactive waste to Germany.
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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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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.