Controversial French Author Francoise Sagan Dies
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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. Sagan, who was 69, was an icon of  1950s intellectuals 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 evasion.
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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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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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Newspapers in France bid a sad adieu to a literary icon.
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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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Laura Archera Huxley, the widow of "Brave New World" author Aldous Huxley, who worked to preserve his legacy for nearly half a century after his death while authoring her own books, has died. She was 96.
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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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The French mime artist Marcel Marceau dies at the age of 84, the AFP news agency reports.
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One of France&#39;s most famous Bohemian writers, Francoise Sagan, has died at the age of 69. Sagan was catapulted into the limelight in 1954, when she was 18, with her first novel Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness).
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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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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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Pierre Berton, whose populist tales of Canadian history made him one of the country's best known writers and media personalities, has died at age of 84.
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Alain Robbe-Grillet, an avant-garde author who dispensed with conventional storytelling as a pioneer of the postwar "new novel" movement in France, died Monday. He was 85.
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French philosopher Jean Baudrillard,  whose provocative, paradoxical style was reflected in the title  of his 1991 work "The Gulf War did not take place," has died,  his publisher Galilee said on Wednesday. He was 77.
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French philosopher Jean Baudrillard, whose provocative, paradoxical style was reflected in the title of his 1991 work "The Gulf War did not take place", has died, his publisher Galilee said on Wednesday. He was 77.
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Former first lady Claude Pompidou, the widow of President Georges Pompidou, died Tuesday in Paris, her foundation said. She was 94.
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Julien Gracq, a celebrated French writer known for surrealism and solitude and for having turned down France's top literary prize, has died, hospital officials said Sunday. He was 97.