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    Jean Raspail (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ʁaspaj], 5 July 1925 – 13 June 2020) was a French explorer, novelist, and travel writer. Many of his books are...
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  • Habib-Jean Baldé (born 8 February 1985 in Saint-Vallier, Saône-et-Loire) is a former professional footballer who played as a defender. He spent all of...
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  • footballer Ibrahima Baldé (born 1989), Senegalese footballer Ibraima Baldé (born 1986), Bissau-Guinean footballer Jean-François Baldé (born 1950), former...
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    François Duhourcau 1926–1950 1926 François Mauriac 1927 Joseph Kessel 1928 Jean Balde [fr] 1929 André Demaison [fr] 1930 Jacques de Lacretelle 1931 Henri Pourrat...
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  • Jean-François Baldé (born 29 November 1950) is a French former professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. Born in Mulhouse, France, Baldé had his...
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    Count Jean Bruno Wladimir François-de-Paule Lefèvre d'Ormesson (16 June 1925 – 5 December 2017) was a French writer and novelist. He authored forty books...
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    Jour (by Luis Buñuel in 1967) and L'armée des ombres (Army of Shadows) (by Jean-Pierre Melville in 1969). In 1943 he and his nephew Maurice Druon translated...
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    Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, Vicomte de Saint-Exupéry, known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (UK: /ˌsæ̃tɪɡˈzuːpɛri/, US: /-ɡzuːpeɪˈriː/, French:...
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    François Duhourcau 1926–1950 1926 François Mauriac 1927 Joseph Kessel 1928 Jean Balde [fr] 1929 André Demaison [fr] 1930 Jacques de Lacretelle 1931 Henri Pourrat...
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    François Duhourcau 1926–1950 1926 François Mauriac 1927 Joseph Kessel 1928 Jean Balde [fr] 1929 André Demaison [fr] 1930 Jacques de Lacretelle 1931 Henri Pourrat...
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    Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar (1966). A year later she married the director Jean-Luc Godard and appeared in several of his films, including La Chinoise (1967)...
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    François Duhourcau 1926–1950 1926 François Mauriac 1927 Joseph Kessel 1928 Jean Balde [fr] 1929 André Demaison [fr] 1930 Jacques de Lacretelle 1931 Henri Pourrat...
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    François Duhourcau 1926–1950 1926 François Mauriac 1927 Joseph Kessel 1928 Jean Balde [fr] 1929 André Demaison [fr] 1930 Jacques de Lacretelle 1931 Henri Pourrat...
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    a French actress and author who worked with and married French director Jean-Luc Godard. François Mauriac died in Paris on 1 September 1970, and was interred...
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    Amélie Nothomb (category Grand prix Jean Giono recipients)
    Jacques-Chardonne, the 1999 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, the Grand prix Jean Giono (2008), and since 2015 has been a member of the Belgium Royal Academy...
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    Jean Patrick Modiano (French: [ʒɑ̃ patʁik mɔdjano]; born 30 July 1945), generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist and recipient of the 2014...
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    François Duhourcau 1926–1950 1926 François Mauriac 1927 Joseph Kessel 1928 Jean Balde [fr] 1929 André Demaison [fr] 1930 Jacques de Lacretelle 1931 Henri Pourrat...
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    co-founded in 1970, with the Arles photographer Lucien Clergue and the historian Jean-Maurice Rouquette, the Rencontres d'Arles. At the same time he produced for...
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    François Duhourcau 1926–1950 1926 François Mauriac 1927 Joseph Kessel 1928 Jean Balde [fr] 1929 André Demaison [fr] 1930 Jacques de Lacretelle 1931 Henri Pourrat...
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  • l'amour [fr] Grasset (2) 1927 Joseph Kessel Les Captifs [fr] Gallimard 1928 Jean Balde Reine d'Arbieux Plon (4) 1929 André Demaison Le Livre des bêtes qu'on...
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    Agriates (1950) La Sainte Vehme (The Holy Vehme) (1954), illustrated by Jean Dries Villeperdue (Lost City) (1954) Montsalvat (1999) L'Atlantide, directed...
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  • Jean Hougron (1 July 1923 - 22 May 2001) was a French novelist, famous for a series of novels set in French Indochina in the mid-20th century, which is...
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    François Duhourcau 1926–1950 1926 François Mauriac 1927 Joseph Kessel 1928 Jean Balde [fr] 1929 André Demaison [fr] 1930 Jacques de Lacretelle 1931 Henri Pourrat...
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    Jean de La Varende (24 May 1887 at the Château de Bonneville in Chamblac, Eure – 8 June 1959) was a French writer. He wrote novels, short stories, biographies...
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    Pierre-Jean Rémy is the pen-name of Jean-Pierre Angremy (21 March 1937 – 28 April 2010) who was a French diplomat, novelist, and essayist. He was elected...
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    François Duhourcau 1926–1950 1926 François Mauriac 1927 Joseph Kessel 1928 Jean Balde [fr] 1929 André Demaison [fr] 1930 Jacques de Lacretelle 1931 Henri Pourrat...
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  • François Mitterrand 1980: Madame est sortie, Flammarion, play, preface by Jean Anouilh Comme avant, play, Septembre 1976, unpublished 1960: Classe tous...
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  • François Duhourcau 1926–1950 1926 François Mauriac 1927 Joseph Kessel 1928 Jean Balde [fr] 1929 André Demaison [fr] 1930 Jacques de Lacretelle 1931 Henri Pourrat...
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    François Duhourcau 1926–1950 1926 François Mauriac 1927 Joseph Kessel 1928 Jean Balde [fr] 1929 André Demaison [fr] 1930 Jacques de Lacretelle 1931 Henri Pourrat...
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    François Duhourcau 1926–1950 1926 François Mauriac 1927 Joseph Kessel 1928 Jean Balde [fr] 1929 André Demaison [fr] 1930 Jacques de Lacretelle 1931 Henri Pourrat...
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