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    The French writer and folklore collector Henri Pourrat was born in 1887 in Ambert, a town in the mountainous Auvergne region of central France. He died...
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    French president François Mitterrand Plantu, cartoonist for Le Monde Henri Pourrat, writer and anthropologist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter Didier...
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    der Meersch 1937 Charles Plisnier 1938 Henri Troyat 1939 Philippe Hériat 1940 Francis Ambrière 1941 Henri Pourrat 1942 Marc Bernard 1943 Marius Grout 1944...
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    der Meersch 1937 Charles Plisnier 1938 Henri Troyat 1939 Philippe Hériat 1940 Francis Ambrière 1941 Henri Pourrat 1942 Marc Bernard 1943 Marius Grout 1944...
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    1968) (filmed as The Horsemen in 1971.) Kisling 1891-1953 (1971) avec Henri Troyat Partout un ami (1972) Des hommes (1972) Les temps sauvages (1975)...
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    der Meersch 1937 Charles Plisnier 1938 Henri Troyat 1939 Philippe Hériat 1940 Francis Ambrière 1941 Henri Pourrat 1942 Marc Bernard 1943 Marius Grout 1944...
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    Balde [fr] 1929 André Demaison [fr] 1930 Jacques de Lacretelle 1931 Henri Pourrat 1932 Jacques Chardonne 1933 Roger Chauviré 1934 Paule Régnier 1935 Albert...
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    of his work. He lived in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris. He died in the Henri-Dunant Hospital [fr] on 13 June 2020, aged 94. Terre de feu – Alaska (Land...
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    Henri Barbusse (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi baʁbys]; 17 May 1873 – 30 August 1935) was a French novelist, short story writer, journalist, poet and political...
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    Henri Troyat (born Lev Aslanovich Tarasov; 1 November [O.S. 19 October] 1911 – 2 March 2007) was a Russian-French author; a biographer, historian and...
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    in 1904. Both the translation and the introduction were well-reviewed; Henri Bergson called Proust's introduction "an important contribution to the psychology...
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    Balde [fr] 1929 André Demaison [fr] 1930 Jacques de Lacretelle 1931 Henri Pourrat 1932 Jacques Chardonne 1933 Roger Chauviré 1934 Paule Régnier 1935 Albert...
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    French jurist, poet and publisher of folk tales and literary fairy tales Henri Pourrat, French collector of Auvergne folklore (1887–1959) Achille Millien,...
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  • ISBN 2-7152-1448-0 Cahier de l'Herne, Romain Gary (L'Herne, 2005) Désérable, François-Henri, Un certain M. Piekielny, Gallimard, 2017, ISBN 978-2-07-274141-8 Schoolcraft...
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    der Meersch 1937 Charles Plisnier 1938 Henri Troyat 1939 Philippe Hériat 1940 Francis Ambrière 1941 Henri Pourrat 1942 Marc Bernard 1943 Marius Grout 1944...
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    happening. When she finally does, the castle crumbles and the wolf dies. Henri Pourrat collected a version from Auvergne in south-central France, titled Belle...
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    der Meersch 1937 Charles Plisnier 1938 Henri Troyat 1939 Philippe Hériat 1940 Francis Ambrière 1941 Henri Pourrat 1942 Marc Bernard 1943 Marius Grout 1944...
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    was Houellebecq, which he took as his pen name. Later, he went to Lycée Henri Moissan, a high school at Meaux north-east of Paris, as a boarder. He then...
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    Marshal Pétain, head of the French State, comes at the invitation of Henri Pourrat to meet the working people in Ambert, near Vichy, on a visit to the...
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    Balde [fr] 1929 André Demaison [fr] 1930 Jacques de Lacretelle 1931 Henri Pourrat 1932 Jacques Chardonne 1933 Roger Chauviré 1934 Paule Régnier 1935 Albert...
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    Virgin Mary's medals, is a literary invention by the French writer Henri Pourrat. The body was then loaded onto a horse and brought to the Château de...
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    Balde [fr] 1929 André Demaison [fr] 1930 Jacques de Lacretelle 1931 Henri Pourrat 1932 Jacques Chardonne 1933 Roger Chauviré 1934 Paule Régnier 1935 Albert...
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    IMAX format and is an account of the true story of early airmail pilots Henri Guillaumet (played by Craig Sheffer), Saint-Exupéry played by Tom Hulce...
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    der Meersch 1937 Charles Plisnier 1938 Henri Troyat 1939 Philippe Hériat 1940 Francis Ambrière 1941 Henri Pourrat 1942 Marc Bernard 1943 Marius Grout 1944...
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    der Meersch 1937 Charles Plisnier 1938 Henri Troyat 1939 Philippe Hériat 1940 Francis Ambrière 1941 Henri Pourrat 1942 Marc Bernard 1943 Marius Grout 1944...
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    der Meersch 1937 Charles Plisnier 1938 Henri Troyat 1939 Philippe Hériat 1940 Francis Ambrière 1941 Henri Pourrat 1942 Marc Bernard 1943 Marius Grout 1944...
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    der Meersch 1937 Charles Plisnier 1938 Henri Troyat 1939 Philippe Hériat 1940 Francis Ambrière 1941 Henri Pourrat 1942 Marc Bernard 1943 Marius Grout 1944...
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    Balde [fr] 1929 André Demaison [fr] 1930 Jacques de Lacretelle 1931 Henri Pourrat 1932 Jacques Chardonne 1933 Roger Chauviré 1934 Paule Régnier 1935 Albert...
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    Indochina (now Vietnam). Her parents, Marie (née Legrand, 1877–1956) and Henri Donnadieu (1872–1921), were teachers from France who likely had met at Gia...
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    der Meersch 1937 Charles Plisnier 1938 Henri Troyat 1939 Philippe Hériat 1940 Francis Ambrière 1941 Henri Pourrat 1942 Marc Bernard 1943 Marius Grout 1944...
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