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    grandfather of Count Arthur de Pourtalès (1844–1928), a diplomat who twice married Americans. His father, Jacques-Louis de Pourtalès. Portrait of his parents...
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    Mélanie de Pourtalès, Countess Edmond de Pourtalès (née Louise Sophie Mélanie Renouard de Bussière) (26 March 1836 – 5 May 1914) was a French salonnière...
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  • Anne-Lise: Pourtalès, Guy de in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland, 2005-02-11. Works by or about Guy de Pourtalès at...
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry to commemorate his achievement.[citation needed] Wings of Courage is a 1995 docudrama by French director Jean-Jacques Annaud....
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    Marquis de Ganay (1803–1881) and Élisa Calixte de Pourtalès (1810–1877), who inherited the Château de Luins in the Swiss Canton of Vaud. His elder brother...
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    his wife, Henriette Dorothée de Pury (1750–1818), had no children. In 1799 the mansion was sold to Frédéric de Pourtalès. Afterwards the mansion changed...
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    as Marat 5% de risque (1980, directed by Jean Pourtalé [fr]) as Henri Tanin Love in a Cold Climate (1980, TV Mini-Series) as Fabrice, Duc de Sauveterre...
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  • Jacques de Bourbon, Count of Busset (27 April 1912, Paris – 7 May 2001, Paris) was a French novelist, essayist and politician. He was elected to the Académie...
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    Anne Wiazemsky (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    Sainte Marie de Passy in Paris. Wiazemsky made her on-screen acting debut at the age of 18, playing Marie, the lead character in Robert Bresson's Au hasard...
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    (2015) Je dirai malgré tout que cette vie fut belle (2016) – Prix Jean-Jacques-Rousseau Le guide des égarés (2016) Et moi, je vis toujours (2018) Un Hosanna...
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    Joël Dicker (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    unpublished manuscripts, Parisian editor Bernard de Fallois acquired Dicker's debut novel Les derniers jours de nos pères (The Final Days of Our Fathers). The...
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    Boualem Sansal (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Alger. Lettre de colère et d'espoir à mes compatriotes in 2006, Sansal's books have been banned in Algeria. Sansal's 2008 novel Le village de l'Allemand...
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    Jean Raspail (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    comic book in three volumes by Jacques Terpant Le Royaume de Borée (2011–2014), comic book in three volumes by Jacques Terpant "One cannot be a man, fully...
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    Giuliano da Empoli (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    debut novel Le Mage du Kremlin, for which he received the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française. Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1973, Giuliano da Empoli...
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    1831, the Marquis de Ganay was married to Élisa Calixte de Pourtalès (1810–1877), a daughter of Count James-Alexandre de Pourtalès, a prominent banker...
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    Deux cœurs simples (Gallimard) 1958 Paris. Présentation de Jacques de Lacretelle. Photos de Jacques Boulas (Hachette) 1959 Les Maîtres et les Amis. Études...
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    Patrick Modiano (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    the Institut de France for lifetime achievement, the 1978 Prix Goncourt for Rue des boutiques obscures, and the 1972 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française...
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    contre le Bolchévisme, an organisation founded in 1941 by Fernand de Brinon and Jacques Doriot to recruit volunteers to fight alongside the Germans in the...
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  • Jacques Chardonne (born Jacques Boutelleau; 2 January 1884, in Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire, Charente – 29 May 1968, in La Frette-sur-Seine) is the pseudonym...
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    François Mauriac (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    Jesus 1964 - De Gaulle de François Mauriac (French edition), 1966 English -(Doubleday) 1919 – Petits Essais de Psychologie Religieuse: De quelques coeurs...
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    Jonathan Littell (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    in 2001 in order to concentrate on writing. Littell is the son of author Robert Littell. Although his grandparents were Jews who emigrated from Russia to...
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    Jacques (1530–1598), from whom all future generations descend, and his brother, Esaïe. After the death of his first wife, Jacquemine Favre, Jacques married...
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  • List of Huguenots (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Delprat, Dutch-Australian manager of BHP. Jean de Neuflize (1850–1928), banker. James-Alexandre de Pourtalès (1776–1855) banker. E. I. du Pont, founder of...
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    Joseph Kessel (category Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française winners)
    Passerby, directed by Jacques Rouffio (France, 1982, based on the novel La Passante du Sans-Souci) Cease Firing (dir. Jacques de Baroncelli, France, 1934)...
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  • Thumbnail for Amélie Nothomb
    Amélie Nothomb (category Members of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique)
    awarded numerous prizes, including the 1993 Prix Jacques-Chardonne, the 1999 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, the Grand prix Jean Giono (2008)...
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  • Thumbnail for Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre
    Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre (born 20 March 1976) is a French journalist and author. Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France...
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    marry until he was 21. Hélène Violette de Talleyrand-Périgord (1915-2003), who married Comte James Robert de Pourtalès on March 29, 1937, in Le Val-Saint-Germain...
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    André Malraux (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
    figures such as Demetrios Galanis, Max Jacob, François Mauriac, Guy de Pourtalès, André Salmon, Jean Cocteau, Raymond Radiguet, Florent Fels, Pascal Pia...
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    engine, was brought to Le Mans, again to be driven by the Molon brothers. Jacques Bignan was a Parisian engineer who expanded and founded his own automobile...
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    de Roziers (14/01/1946) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├──> Béatrice de Rohan-Chabot (29/11/1944) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ x (14/05/1969) Alexis de Pourtalès (11/01/1941...
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